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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InfinityDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A multi-model DBMS and application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

boilerbay.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.intersystems.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

InterSystems

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2002

1997

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

simple password-based access control

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