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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial extension of H2

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#145	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

www.h2gis.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

CNRS

Qdrant

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2013

2021

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

based on H2

Key-based authentication

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