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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Memgraph vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

memgraph.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

memgraph.com/docs

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

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Developer

Firebird Foundation

Memgraph Ltd

Robert Friberg et al

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

depending on model

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users, roles and permissions

Role based authorization

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