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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LMDB vs. Netezza vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sadasengine.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSymasIBMSADAS s.r.l.Cesbit
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2011200020062017
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9.32, January 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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