DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Firebird Foundation

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2018

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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