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DBMS > Databend vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexitydBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.28
Rank#287  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score123.05
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.dbase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperDatabend LabsAsthon TateFirebird FoundationIBM
Initial release202119792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1983 infohost version
Current release1.0.59, April 2023dBASE 2019, 20195.0.1, August 202412.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageRustC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PSQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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