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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. OpenMLDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldopenmldb.aigithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockGoogle4 Paradigm Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420202016
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20192.1.12, February 20172024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptJavaScriptC++, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
SQLAlchemy
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnononono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnone
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 integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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