DBMS > Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#180	Overall
	#31	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rockset.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.rockset.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

Rockset

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

1989

2019

1998

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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