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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. Machbase Neo vs. searchxml

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.firebirdsql.orgmachbase.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmachbase.com/­dbmswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFirebird FoundationMachbaseinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release201620082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20132015
Current release2.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20125.0.0, January 2024V8.0, August 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
JDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoPSQLnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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