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DBMS > Firebird vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. JSqlDb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of H2JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.orgjsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisCNRSKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200620132018
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infobased on H2functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes infobased on H2

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