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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Heroic vs. NSDb vs. openGauss 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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

nsdb.io

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

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

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Spotify

Huawei and openGauss community

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2017

2019

1993

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Java, Scala

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

via Elasticsearch

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

.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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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