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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HyperSQL vs. SiteWhere vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SiteWhere

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2001

2010

1987

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and 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

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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