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DBMS > Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Spark SQL

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comjsqldb.org (offline)spark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Konrad von BackstromApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2010201520182014
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 20230.8, December 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesScala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsno

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