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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	18.54
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	1.25
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Firebird Foundation

IBM

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data 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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

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

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