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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Firebird vs. Kingbase vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

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

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Firebird Foundation

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1999

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

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

Immediate 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

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 and groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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