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DBMS > Firebird vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.scylladb.comwww.vertica.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.scylladb.comvertica.com/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationScyllaDBOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520052013
Current release5.0.1, August 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 202412.0.3, January 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes, Luayes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes, called Custom Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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FirebirdScyllaDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Vitess
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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