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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenQM vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.leanxcale.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Firebird Foundation

LeanXcale

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenPie

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

1993

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.4-12

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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