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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Realm vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Realm vs. Yanza

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesrealm.ioyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Yanza
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220142015
Current release5.0.1, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
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
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
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.nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 writersyesyes
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.noyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesno

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