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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. SingleStore vs. Trafodion vs. YugabyteDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.singlestore.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.singlestore.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedSingleStore Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017201320142017
Current release5.0.1, August 20244.0 (May 2024)8.5, January 20242.3.0, February 20192.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++, GoC++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APICluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesJava Stored Proceduresyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infohash partitioningShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyes, via HBaseBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdObjectBoxSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTrafodionYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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