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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Access vs. Riak TS vs. SiriDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.)Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesCesbit
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199220152017
Current release5.0.0, January 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ErlangC
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
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoNumeric data
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP 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
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineErlangno
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
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 conceptno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nosimple rights management via user accounts

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