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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Firebird vs. Memcached 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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

origodb.com/docs

Developer

4D, Inc

Firebird Foundation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1984

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2003

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v20, April 2023

5.0.1, August 2024

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

Proprietary protocol

.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++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Role based authorization

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