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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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 scaleAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.kingbase.com.cnorigodb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19992009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 2019V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptC and JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.noyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)Standard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
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 tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorization

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