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DBMS > Firebird vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. TerminusDB vs. Tibero vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgterminusdb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#technet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDataChemist Ltd.TmaxSoftVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201820032011
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.0.0, January 20236, April 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Prolog, RustC and AssemblerC#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)no
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no infoplanned for next versionyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)Based on Windows Authentication

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