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DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. Spark SQL

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase19932014
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.4-123.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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