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DBMS > Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. Qdrant vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgmaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
ravendb.netspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationravendb.net/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997QdrantHibernating RhinosApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1984202120102014
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.9.10.12, February 20245.4, July 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++RustC#Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno

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