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DBMS > Firebird vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiriDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiriDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsiridb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEdocs.siridb.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSADAS s.r.l.SAP, SybaseCesbitApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2006198720172014
Current release5.0.0, January 20248.016.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C and C++CScala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoJava and Transact-SQLnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno

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