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DBMS > Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareSybase, SAP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014198420171993
Current release5.0.0, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesInterbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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