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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Ignite vs. Linter

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	24.94
Rank	#32	Overall
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Score	7.06
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#309	Overall
	#142	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

ignite.apache.org

linter.ru/en

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

relex.ru/en

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

1990

Current release

4.0.1, December 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

available via 3rd party products

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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