DBMS > Blueflood vs. EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EDB Postgres vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Rackspace

EnterpriseDB

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2013

2005

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

Current release

14, December 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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