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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenMLDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

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

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

openmldb.ai

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Firebird Foundation

4 Paradigm Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2020

2004

1987

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2024-2 February 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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