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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Galaxybase

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

galaxybase.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

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