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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. ITTIA vs. MonetDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.ittia.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockITTIA L.L.C.MonetDB BV
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20072004
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20198.7Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptC and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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