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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

1994

2014

2023

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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