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

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A 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 model

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/google/leveldb

www.progress.com/openedge

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Google

Progress Software Corporation

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2011

1984

2020

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.2, November 2023

1.23, February 2021

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

yes

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

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Users and groups

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