DBMS > Firebird vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

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Trend Chart

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1994

2014

2016

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a 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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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