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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

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

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1993

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.4-12

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

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

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

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