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DBMS > Firebird vs. Netezza vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Netezza vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzagithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperFirebird FoundationIBMObjectBox LimitedSybase, SAP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200020171993
Current release5.0.1, August 20244.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMObjectBoxSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
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