DBMS > Firebird vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1999

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

4.4, October 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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