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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.firebirdsql.org

www.geomesa.org

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Firebird Foundation

CCRi and others

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

1980

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PSQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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