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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2GIS

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.66
Rank	#33	Overall
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Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Firebird Foundation

CNRS

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

based on H2

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