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DBMS > Firebird vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20112023
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 20151.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)Vector, Numeric and String
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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