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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ITTIA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.72
Rank	#32	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#258	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ittia.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Firebird Foundation

ITTIA L.L.C.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2007

2013

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

JavaScript

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Database file passwords

simple password-based access control

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