DBMS > Firebird vs. Newts vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Newts vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Firebird Foundation

OpenNMS Group

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

quasardb

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

1994

2009

1994

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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