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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. Raima Database Manager vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	25.72
Rank	#32	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1202.10
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	31.82
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#241	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#50	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

dev.mysql.com/doc

postgis.net/documentation

docs.raima.com

xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Raima Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1995

2005

1984

2019

Current release

4.0.1, December 2021

8.0.29, April 2022

3.2.1, February 2022

15, June 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

available via 3rd party products

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

no user groups or roles

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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