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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ObjectBox vs. Rockset vs. Trino

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-servergithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rockset.comtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iodocs.rockset.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftObjectBox LimitedRocksetTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1989201720192012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release5.0.1, August 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20224.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesdynamic typingyes
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexeddepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Proprietary native APIHTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnoneAutomatic shardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleSQL standard access control
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