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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Firebird Foundation

OpenNMS Group

SAP

formerly Sybase

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

1992

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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