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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. HyperSQL vs. MaxDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.firebirdsql.org

hsqldb.org

maxdb.sap.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Firebird Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Yanza

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2001

1984

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

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

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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