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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Firebird Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2021

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.0.0, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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