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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersCNRS
Initial release20192000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142013
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes infobased on H2
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonedepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2

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