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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Event Store Limited

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2016

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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