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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Tkrzw vs. Warp 10

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmldbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperFirebird FoundationAlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Mikio HirabayashiSenX
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005198420202015
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesyes infoNotificationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single nodeno
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.yesnoyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)noMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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FirebirdNCacheOracle RdbTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetWarp 10
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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