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DBMS > Firebird vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. OpenTSDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. OpenTSDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  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 PlatformScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgcloud.google.com/­datastoreopentsdb.netwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPercona
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2008201120082014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.0.0, January 20248.0.36-28, 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
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++JavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, details herenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (GQL)noyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLusing Google App Enginenoyesuser defined functions
TriggersyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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