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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. Trino

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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

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

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

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1993

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

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
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

SQL standard access control

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News

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12 September 2024

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22 August 2024

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1 August 2024

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11 July 2024

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