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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. OrientDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  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 scaleUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.harperdb.ioorientdb.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAxibase CorporationFirebird FoundationGeoSpockHarperDBOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172010
Current release155855.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20193.1, August 20213.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, JavascriptNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesdynamic schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1Java, Javascript
TriggersyesyesnonoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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