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DBMS > Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Qdrant vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. Qdrant vs. SpaceTime

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleCNRSQdrantMireo
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015201320212020
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaRustC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2Collection-level replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2Key-based authenticationyes

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