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DBMS > Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.comspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemachbase.com/­dbmsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationEmbarcaderoMachbaseApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1984201320142014
Current release5.0.0, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CCScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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