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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Spark SQL vs. Tigris vs. Transbase

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#363  Overall
#49  Document stores
#54  Key-value stores
#22  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.tigrisdata.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersApache Software FoundationTigris Data, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014201420221987
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++ScalaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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