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DBMS > Axibase vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. LeanXcale

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFirebird FoundationGeoSpockGoogleLeanXcale
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20082015
Current release155855.0.0, January 20242.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, Javascript
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes, details here
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 indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)yes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnousing Google App Engine
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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