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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Firebird Foundation

CNRS

Spotify

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

2014

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

based on H2

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