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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SingleStore vs. Splice Machine vs. Titan

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.singlestore.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.singlestore.comsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperFirebird FoundationInterSystemsSingleStore Inc.Splice MachineAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2018201320142012
Current release5.0.0, January 20242023.3, June 20238.5, January 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesyesyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsYes, via Full Spark Integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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FirebirdInterSystems IRISSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSplice MachineTitan
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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