DBMS > Firebird vs. openGauss vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. openGauss vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ vs. Valentina Server

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

rdf4j.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Huawei and openGauss community

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

TempoIQ

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2019

2004

2012

1999

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.0, March 2022

5.7.5

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

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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