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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.h2gis.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Firebird Foundation

CNRS

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

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

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

simple password-based access control

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