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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Bangdb vs. Firebird

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2016

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

2.1, December 2018

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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