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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Percona

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

2015

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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