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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. Kingbase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebird FoundationBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199919942009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2022, May 20225.0.0, January 2024V8.0, August 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C and JavaCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.noyesnono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesStandard with numerous extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorization

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