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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghbase.apache.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetObjectBox LimitedOracle
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820172007
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.3.4, January 20214.0 (May 2024)14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native APIJCache
JPA
RESTful 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++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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