DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NuoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.nuodb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2013

1993

2014

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Transact SQL

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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