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DBMS > Firebird vs. Memcached vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Memcached vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmorigodb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiorigodb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsRobert Friberg et alDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200319932009 infounder the name LiveDB2018
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.6.25, March 20243.4-1211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesno infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.NetJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
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 levelRole based authorizationRole-based access control

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