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DBMS > Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverobjectbox.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationManticore SoftwareMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017198920172014
Current release5.0.0, January 20246.0, February 2023SQL Server 2022, November 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes
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.Can index from XMLyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editiononline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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 dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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