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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NSDb vs. openGemini vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

nsdb.io

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengemini.org/guide

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Huawei and openGemini community

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2022

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Role based authorization

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