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DBMS > Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCNRSMonetDB BVSplice Machine
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320042014
Current release5.0.0, January 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoJava
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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