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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	22.75
Rank	#30	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	5.33
Rank	#68	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

Current release

3.0.7 , October 2020

3.1.0, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

available via 3rd party products

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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