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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Access vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  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 scaleMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.postgres-xl.orgsiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockMicrosoftCesbit
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19922014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptC++CC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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