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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 storeA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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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
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orgrockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperEsgynFirebird FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRocksetSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200920191994
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.2.0, December 202216.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typingyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLErlangnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
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
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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