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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

geospock.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Firebird Foundation

GeoSpock

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.0, September 2019

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple password-based access control

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