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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. H2GIS vs. RavenDB vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial extension of H2Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2gis.orgravendb.netrockset.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeravendb.net/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCNRSHibernating RhinosRockset
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013201020192009
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC#C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typingyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (RQL)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infobased on H2yesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
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 H2Authorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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