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DBMS > Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Typesense

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA multi-model DBMS and application serverA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbtypesense.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.intersystems.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbtypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationInterSystemsPercona
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199720152015
Current release5.0.0, January 20242018.1.4, May 20203.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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