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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2 vs. Pinecone vs. SpatiaLite

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.comwww.pinecone.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationThomas MuellerPinecone Systems, IncAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200520192008
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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