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

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

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used RDBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Spotify

Manticore Software

Oracle

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2017

1980

1993

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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