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DBMS > Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. LMDB vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. LMDB vs. OpenQM

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeoSpockSymasRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20111993
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20190.9.32, January 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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