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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Immudb vs. Memcached vs. OpenQM

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.memcached.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.immudb.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCodenotaryDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase202020031993
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.2.3, April 20221.6.25, March 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like syntaxnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
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 conceptyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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