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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 InterBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgpostgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualspostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebird FoundationJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20052019
Current release2022, May 20225.0.0, January 20243.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++CClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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