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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak TS vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Arcade Data

Firebird Foundation

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2021

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2017

Current release

September 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Erlang

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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