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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebird vs. OrigoDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org

origodb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

Firebird Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

under the name LiveDB

2020

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

yes

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