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DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. SQL.JS vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yanza

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseApplication development environment with integrated database management systemPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgesql.js.orgwww.timescale.comyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationProgress Software CorporationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersTimescaleYanza
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1984201220172015
Current release5.0.0, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesno
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infonone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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