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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score22.45
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.mysql.compostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Suninformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199520052015
Current release5.0.0, January 20248.3.0, January 20243.4.2, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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