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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak TS vs. Teradata

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgobjectbox.iowww.teradata.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesTeradata
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720151984
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.0.0, September 2022Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes, limitedyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
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++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoErlangyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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