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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hazelcast vs. OpenEdge vs. Sqrrl

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.A widely adopted in-memory data gridApplication development environment with integrated database management systemAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.postgresql.fastware.comhazelcast.comwww.progress.com/­openedgesqrrl.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperFirebird FoundationPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyHazelcastProgress Software CorporationAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200819842012
Current release5.0.0, January 2024Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20225.3.6, November 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and by hashShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers and groupsCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
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FirebirdFujitsu Enterprise PostgresHazelcastOpenEdgeSqrrl
Specific characteristics100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantagesBuilt-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenariosTransactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metricsOver 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCore based licensing
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