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DBMS > Firebird vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Immudb vs. Ingres vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Immudb vs. Ingres vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Well established RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.postgresql.fastware.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingrestrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualsdocs.immudb.iodocs.actian.com/­ingrestrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologyCodenotaryActian CorporationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20201974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2014
Current release5.0.0, January 2024Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20221.2.3, April 202211.2, May 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CGoCC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like syntaxyesyes
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
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and by hashShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationIngres Replicatoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCCyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FirebirdFujitsu Enterprise PostgresImmudbIngresTrafodion
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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