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DBMS > Firebird vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score22.45
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshelp.sap.com/­hanawww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSAPSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20102013
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0 SPS07 (AprilĀ 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLSQLScript, RJavaScript
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyessimple password-based access control

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