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DBMS > Firebird vs. Quasardb vs. Tigris vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Quasardb vs. Tigris vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureObject-relational database and reports serverA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgquasar.aiwww.tigrisdata.comwww.valentina-db.netvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tigrisdata.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebird FoundationquasardbTigris Data, Inc.Paradigma SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2009202219992011
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.14.1, January 20245.7.57.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APICLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
ODBC.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesno
TriggersyesnonoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes, using FoundationDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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