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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.starrocks.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1994

2020

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.5.3, March 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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