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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.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 InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comobjectbox.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockObjectBox LimitedSybase, SAPApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201719932014
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptC and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCProprietary native API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Delphi
Perl
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.nonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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