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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. STSdb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.82
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#370	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

Teradata

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

2005

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

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

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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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

R packages

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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