DBMS > 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebird

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebird

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#123	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.75
Rank	#213	Overall
	#18	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	16.66
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

blazegraph.com

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

wiki.blazegraph.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

4D, Inc

Blazegraph

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

1984

2006

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.1.5, March 2019

5.0.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

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

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 and groups

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Tailored Solutions details features of new Label Traxx Version 5.0
26 September 2006, Labels & Labeling

provided by Google News

Firebird – Director, Business Intelligence (US)
23 October 2024, Music Business Worldwide

FBI issues national security warning to Gmail, Outlook email users
17 March 2025, MassLive

Exploring the Firebird Database
9 August 2023, Open Source For You

Firebird – Sr. Product Manager, Touring (Remote)
12 July 2024, Music Business Worldwide

12 Top Open Source Databases to Consider
1 May 2024, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Share this page