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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HBase vs. Netezza vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzasiridb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMCesbitMireo
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2008200020172020
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infoNumeric datayes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accountsyes

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