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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.43
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#111  Overall
#18  Key-value stores
Score1.10
Rank#173  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score31.48
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score99.49
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.iohelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleObjectBox LimitedSAP, SybaseDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2011201719872000
Current release5.0.1, August 20241.23, February 20214.0 (May 2024)16.03.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSDBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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