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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Well established RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.67
Rank	#77	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.hawkular.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.actian.com/ingres

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2005

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.2, May 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a 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

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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