DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Apache Phoenix vs. Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationSAP infoformerly SybaseJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19922019
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.1, August 202417, July 20151.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaC and C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache PhoenixFirebirdSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereXTDB infoformerly named Crux
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions
11 August 2021,  Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Supercharge SQL on Your Data in Apache HBase with Apache Phoenix
2 June 2016, AWS Blog

Deep dive into Azure HDInsight 4.0
25 September 2018, Microsoft

Hortonworks Starts Hadoop Summit with Data Platform Update
28 June 2016, ADT Magazine

Apache Drill Adds New Data Formats
28 March 2022, iProgrammer

Amazon EMR 4.7.0 – Apache Tez & Phoenix, Updates to Existing Apps
2 June 2016, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Firebird – Director, Operations & Production (UK)
24 May 2024, Music Business Worldwide

12 Top Open Source Databases to Consider
1 May 2024, TechTarget

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
23 October 2023, The Hacker News

1976 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Is an All-Original Museum Piece, Looks Best in the Driveway
1 July 2024, autoevolution

Best Open Source Software List For Data Management In 2024
7 May 2024, Datamation

provided by Google News

SAP Products & Services Data Portfolio
2 July 2021, Datamation

Securing SAP with AWS Network Firewall: Part 2 – Managed Rules
17 July 2023, AWS Blog

SAP vulnerabilities Let Attacker Inject OS Commands—Patch Now!
11 July 2023, CybersecurityNews

MindsDB is now the leading and fastest growing applied ML platform in the world
3 November 2022, PR Newswire

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
9 December 2020, CRN

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here