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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
RDF store

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

terminusdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

1980

2018

2003

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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 journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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