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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. STSdb vs. Trino

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Name

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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

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

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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