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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTenBase

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#370  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgmaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1984
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.9.10.12, February 20242.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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