DBMS > Firebird vs. Netezza vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Netezza vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2000

2015

2017

2020

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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