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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

SADAS s.r.l.

Cesbit

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2006

2017

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a 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

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

yes

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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