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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. RavenDB vs. SQream DB vs. TempoIQ

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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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

ravendb.net

sqream.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

ravendb.net/docs

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

SQream Technologies

TempoIQ

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2017

2012

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.4, July 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Authorization levels configured per client per database

simple authentication-based access control

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