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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. PieCloudDB vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#291  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.openpie.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOpenPiequasardb
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2009
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.1, January 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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FirebirdPieCloudDBQuasardb
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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