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DBMS > Firebird vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgcloud.google.com/­datastoremanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleManticore Softwarequasardb
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current release5.0.0, January 20246.0, February 202310 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details hereInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infointeger and binary
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.noCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
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
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLusing Google App Engineuser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using PaxosSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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