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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Warp 10

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#351  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverrockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftRocksetAlessandro FurieriSenX
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1989201920082015
Current release5.0.1, August 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.yesno infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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