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Name

Description

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

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

boilerbay.com

www.splunk.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2002

2003

1998

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

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)

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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