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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open Source Time Series DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.orgsiridb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.CesbitTempoIQ
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1992200420172012
Current release5.0.0, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple rights management via user accountssimple authentication-based access control

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