DBMS > Firebird vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

planetscale.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.raima.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Firebird Foundation

PlanetScale

Raima Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2020

2005

1984

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

15, June 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

Linux

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

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

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

ACID at shard level

ACID

yes

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

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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