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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. Linter vs. Sphinx vs. Ultipa

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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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

relex.ru

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Ultipa

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

1990

2001

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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++

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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