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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. Tibero

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sadasengine.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Firebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SADAS s.r.l.TmaxSoft
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201020062003
Current release2.1, December 20185.0.0, January 20248.06, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++ErlangC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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