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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Cesbit

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2006

2013

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

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