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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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	25.72
Rank	#32	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#335	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.09
Rank	#98	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#289	Overall
	#23	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.h2gis.org

pouchdb.com

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

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Firebird Foundation

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

2012

2009

Current release

4.0.1, December 2021

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Java

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)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

available via 3rd party products

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

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)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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