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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

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

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2018

1994

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Scala

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

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

Source-replica replication

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

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