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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hive vs. Splice Machine vs. StarRocks

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghive.apache.orgsplicemachine.comwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homesplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSplice MachineThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220142020
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 20223.1, March 20212.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes infoJavauser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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