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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.71
Rank	#129	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#156	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

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

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1994

2003

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

7, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

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.

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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