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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  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.Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersTranswarp
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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