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DBMS > Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresObject-relational database and reports serverA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.valentina-db.netvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebird FoundationInterSystemsParadigma SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19992011
Current release5.0.0, January 20242018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20185.7.57.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#
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
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ODBC.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesuser defined functionsyesno
TriggersyesyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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