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DBMS > Firebird vs. HarperDB vs. LevelDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HarperDB vs. LevelDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Tkrzw

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.progress.com/­openedgedbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHarperDBGoogleProgress Software CorporationMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017201119842020
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.1, August 20211.23, February 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Node.jsC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesnoyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers and groupsno

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