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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperEsgynFirebird FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420092015
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++JavaScriptErlangErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC 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 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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLView functions in JavaScriptErlangErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes, using Riak Securityno

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