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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 scaleQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#291  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#313  Overall
#140  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.iowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsquestdb.io/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology IncParadigma Software
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199320141999
Current release5.0.1, August 20242.0, September 20193.4-125.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesnoyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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