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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenQM

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.mcobject.comwww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperMcObjectFirebird FoundationGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20012000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20161993
Current release8.2, 20215.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20195.10, January 20223.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Java, JavascriptC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infosupport of XML interfaces availablenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnonoyes
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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eXtremeDBFirebirdGeoSpockHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022OpenQM infoalso called QM
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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