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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Firebird 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.MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.harperdb.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFirebird FoundationGeoSpockHarperDBRocket Software
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20171985
Current release21.2, February 20215.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20193.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptNode.jsC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesoptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
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
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes
Triggersyesnonoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, 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 according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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