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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

postgis.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

postgis.net/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

2016

1987

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

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

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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