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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Baidu

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

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2018

1984

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

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

yes

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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