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DBMS > Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk vs. Yanza

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAnalytics Platform for Big DataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score88.71
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.splunk.comyanza.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSAP infoformerly SybaseSequoiadb Ltd.Splunk Inc.Yanza
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1992201320032015
Current release5.0.0, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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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
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesno
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or PerlJavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesno

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