DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Firebird vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. Tibero

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.GoogleTmaxSoft
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005200920112003
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 20161.23, February 20216, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++C++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
FirebirdH2HypertableLevelDBTibero
Recent citations in the news

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
23 October 2023, The Hacker News

12 Top Open Source Databases to Consider
1 May 2024, TechTarget

Exploring the Firebird Database
9 August 2023, Open Source For You

Albany Firebirds single-game tickets on sale Friday
29 February 2024, Troy Record

Top Databases for Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Science, and Other Software Applications
23 July 2023, MarkTechPost

provided by Google News

TimescaleDB goes distributed; implements ‘Chunking’ over ‘Sharding’ for scaling-out
22 August 2019, Packt Hub

SQL and TimescaleDB. This article takes a closer look into… | by Alibaba Cloud
31 July 2019, DataDrivenInvestor

Decorate your Windows XP with Hyperdesk
30 July 2008, CNET

The Collective: Customize Your Computer & Your Phone With Star Trek
18 March 2009, TrekMovie

5 Free NoSQL Database Certification Courses in 2024 – AIM
31 January 2024, Analytics India Magazine

provided by Google News

Malicious npm 'colors' typosquats pack Discord malware
3 May 2022, Sonatype Blog

Pliops unveils XDP-Rocks for RocksDB – Blocks and Files
19 October 2022, Blocks and Files

Microsoft Teams stores auth tokens as cleartext in Windows, Linux, Macs
14 September 2022, BleepingComputer

XanMod, Liquorix Kernels Offer Some Advantages On AMD Ryzen 5 Notebook
26 July 2021, Phoronix

Threat Thursday: BlackGuard Infostealer Rises from Russian Underground Markets
21 April 2022, BlackBerry Blog

provided by Google News

ArkData to Officially Support Domestic Database 'Tibero 7'
23 April 2024, BusinessKorea

How to Succeed at Large-Scale Mainframe Replatforming with TmaxSoft OpenFrame on AWS | Amazon Web Services
2 August 2022, AWS Blog

TmaxSoft aims at becoming global leader in database business
26 March 2015, 코리아타임스

TmaxSoft shows resilience in battle against Oracle, IBM
13 October 2015, The Korea Herald

ArkData's 'Ark for CDC' supports real-time data extraction and replication for Tibero DBMS.
18 April 2023, BusinessKorea

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here