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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. H2 vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.h2database.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Thomas MuellerEmbarcadero
Initial release2020200519842005
Current release2.2.220, July 2023InterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseInterbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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