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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.firebirdsql.org

hive.apache.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Splice Machine

Initial release

2023

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

2014

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.1.3, April 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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