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DBMS > Firebird vs. Memcached vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Memcached vs. SurrealDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
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
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.memcached.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20032022
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.6.25, March 2024v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++CRust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes, based on authentication and database rules

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