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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2 vs. SWC-DB vs. TDengine vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.h2database.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Alex Kashirin

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Yanza

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

2020

2019

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

0.5, April 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Market metrics

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