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DBMS > Citus vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Tibero vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Tibero vs. Valentina Server

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockTmaxSoftParadigma Software
Initial release20102000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20031999
Current release8.1, December 20185.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20196, April 20155.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++Java, JavascriptC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.PSQLnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)yes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.nonono infoplanned for next versionyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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