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DBMS > Firebird vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenEdge vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenEdge vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  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 InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.progress.com/­openedgetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.aidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Progress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004201619842014
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.10, January 2022OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonC++ and CUDAC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)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 nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes 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 dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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