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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.31
Rank	#137	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	25.63
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#175	Overall
	#83	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Firebird Foundation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2007

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

Current release

10.7, August 2023

4.0.3, July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

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 on 4 levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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