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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

maxdb.sap.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Splice Machine

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

2014

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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