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DBMS > Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TypeDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud-based data warehousing serviceOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#162  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationIBMAlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Vaticle
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014200519842016
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 20212.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLPL/SQL, SQL PLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersyesyesyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes, with selectable consistency levelSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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FirebirdIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBNCacheOracle RdbTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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