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DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOracles in-memory data grid solutionM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationProgress Software CorporationOracleSiteWhere
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase198420072010
Current release5.0.0, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202014.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4ShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
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 conceptUsers and groupsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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