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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Oracle

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

2007

2020

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

configurable

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

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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