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DBMS > Firebird vs. KeyDB vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. KeyDB vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
opennms.github.io/­newtswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.keydb.devgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.OpenNMS GroupSAP infoformerly SybaseSiteWhere
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2019201419922010
Current release5.0.0, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search modulenoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLLuanoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access control and ACLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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