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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hazelcast.com

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hazelcast

Manticore Software

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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