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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LeanXcale vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb

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Name

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.leanxcale.com

rethinkdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

rethinkdb.com/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

LeanXcale

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2009

2010

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

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

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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