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DBMS > Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. ObjectBox vs. Teradata vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score47.84
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kinetica.comobjectbox.iowww.teradata.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.teradata.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFirebird FoundationKineticaObjectBox LimitedTeradataParadigma Software
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2012201719841999
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1, August 2021Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20195.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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