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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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Name

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

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

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

1984

2006

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

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

hosted

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

yes, on a single node

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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