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DBMS > Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Pinecone

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHazelcastPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20082019
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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