DBMS > Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2005

2014

2000

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.10, January 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++ and CUDA

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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