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Name

Description

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

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#30	Overall
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Rank	#185	Overall
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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.h2database.com

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

1984

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a

2.2.220, July 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users and groups

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