DBMS > Firebird vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Firebird Foundation

quasardb

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

MVCC

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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