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DBMS > Firebird vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.orgwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOracleSingleStore Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release5.0.0, January 202414.1, August 202310 R1, October 20188.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurableACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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FirebirdOracle CoherencePostgres-XLSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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