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

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperEsgynFirebird FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200920152000
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++ErlangErlangC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes, limitedyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
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 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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLErlangErlangno
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 conceptyes, using Riak Securitynono

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