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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

doc.nuodb.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Role based authorization

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