DBMS > Firebird vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LeanXcale vs. Postgres-XL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.leanxcale.com

www.postgres-xl.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

LeanXcale

TempoIQ

Transwarp

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

yes

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