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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Immudb vs. jBASE vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.immudb.io

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Codenotary

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

TempoIQ

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2020

1991

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple authentication-based access control

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