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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20091992
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.2.0, December 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLErlangyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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