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DBMS > Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solutionLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCNRSSpotifyOracleSybase, SAP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013201420071993
Current release5.0.0, January 202414.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C++
Java
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infobased on H2nonoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2yesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on H2authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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