DBMS > Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare Firebird and SAP SQL Anywhere with Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	22.75
Rank	#30	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	6.30
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1992

Current release

3.0.7 , October 2020

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

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
Windows

Data scheme

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
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

available via 3rd party products

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Odbc packet size
26 January 2021, TandaaBiashara

Global Enterprise Database Software Market Report 2021-2025 Demand To Sustain in Future By Top Contributors Oracle, Sonadier, Microsoft, SAP, SolarWinds, IBM etc.
19 January 2021, NeighborWebSJ

Database Software Market by Top Key Players- Oracle Microsoft IBM SAP Amazon Web Services SolarWinds Airtable MariaDB Corporation Ab PostgreSQL QuintaDB Sonadier ManageEngine Software AG Quick Base Teradata Altibase Firebird
19 January 2021, Jumbo News

The Firebird Project's Firebird Relational Database
29 July 2016, Linux Journal

Are amazon car parts good
20 January 2021, TandaaBiashara

provided by Google News

SAP SQL Anywhere
3 April 2018, TechTarget

SAP gives SQL Anywhere a new IoT injection
16 July 2015, Computerworld

Best Database Management Software 2021
14 July 2020, Datamation

SAP IoT products: How do they work with ERP and big data?
28 December 2015, TechTarget

SAP HANA Dresses for Internet of Things and Predictive Analytics – Cloud Times
17 June 2015, CloudTimes

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Moorestown, NJ - Software Engineer Associate
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION, Mount Laurel, NJ

QA Analyst
Ideal Software Systems, Inc., Meridian, MS

Java Developer
Colorado Business Computer Systems, Inc., Denver, CO

Delphi Application Developer
Valukoda, Dallas, TX

Senior Database Administrator / Developer
Arkansas Center for Data Sciences, Little Rock, AR

IT Leader-Retirement Plan Services
CBIZ, Kansas City, MO

Database Administrator
ECR Software Corporation, United States

jobs by

Share this page