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DBMS > Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.firebirdsql.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoregithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationcubrid.org/­manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.heavy.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationFirebird FoundationGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720162008
Current release11.0, January 20215.0.0, January 20245.10, January 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC and C++C++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesnoACID
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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