DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenEdge

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare Firebird and OpenEdge with Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	24.77
Rank	#32	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#85	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

Current release

4.0.1, December 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

available via 3rd party products

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

3 ways to install dbeaver Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Linux
28 June 2022, Linux Shout

Embedded Database System Market: Trends, Strategy, Applications Analysis and Growth by 2028 – Designer Women
30 June 2022, Designer Women

Embedded Database System Market Is Booming Worldwide – Designer Women
29 June 2022, Designer Women

Database Software Market May See a Big Move | Airtable, MariaDB, PostgreSQL – Indian Defence News
24 June 2022, Indian Defence News

Database Software Market Key Vendors Growth 2022 – Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Amazon Web Services, SolarWinds, etc – Indian Defence News
29 June 2022, Indian Defence News

provided by Google News

Industry Spotlight: Extracting data from inside the app
1 June 2017, SDTimes.com

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Data Scientist
Factory Motor Parts, Eagan, MN

Data Scientist
Factory Motor Parts Company, Eagan, MN

Database Support Engineer - Mining
Canary Systems, Inc., Tucson, AZ

DevOps/Network Engineer
Canary Systems, Inc., New London, NH

Mining Support Engineer - Nevada
Canary Systems, Inc., Elko, NV

Progress Database Administrator
Syncreon, Auburn Hills, MI

Programmer Analyst (Full-Time On-Site)
WAC Lighting, Plattsburgh, NY

Programmer Analyst / Systems Analyst (Full-Time, In Person)
Schonbek / WAC Lighting, Burlington, VT

jobs by

Share this page