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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sqrrl vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

sqrrl.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

2012

2023

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access Control Lists

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