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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tempoiq.com (offline)

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

TempoIQ

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

2012

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

simple authentication-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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