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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Firebolt vs. GBase vs. NSDb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.firebolt.iowww.gbase.cnnsdb.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.firebolt.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperFirebird FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase202020042017
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes

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