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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score16.66
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2022
Current release5.0.1, August 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQL
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, based on authentication and database rules

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