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DBMS > Firebird vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used in-process key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.mireo.com/­spacetimespark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleMireoApache Software FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1994202020142020
Current release5.0.0, January 202418.1.40, May 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnononono
Triggersyesyes infoonly for the SQL APInonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFixed-grid hypercubesyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyesno

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