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DBMS > Firebird vs. GBase vs. OpenQM vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. OpenQM vs. TigerGraph

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200419932017
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole-based access control

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