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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Graphite vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersChris Davisquasardb
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420062009
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.5, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaPythonC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layernoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layernoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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