DBMS > Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Chris Davis

Microsoft

quasardb

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2006

1989

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Python

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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