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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. Splice Machine

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.ioapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.FoundationDBEmbarcaderoSplice Machine
Initial release2020201319842014
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoJava
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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