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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LevelDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Google

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

1993

2014

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.23, February 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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