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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1valentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Paradigma Software
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201719981999
Current release5.0.0, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)5.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoPL/SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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