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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	16.82
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#376	Overall
	#41	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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