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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ITTIA vs. Pinecone

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ittia.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperFirebird FoundationITTIA L.L.C.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20072019
Current release5.0.0, January 20248.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/IntervalString, Number, Boolean
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
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptDatabase file passwords

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