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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.progress.com/­openedgevictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201219842018
Current release5.0.0, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers and groups

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