DBMS > Firebird vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NCache vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Alachisoft

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

quasardb

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

1984

1980

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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