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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Yanza

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2012

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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