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DBMS > Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset vs. Vitess

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.72
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comrockset.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rockset.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHazelcastRocksetThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820192013
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.3.6, November 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated MapyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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