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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. dBASE vs. Firebird vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score9.16
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#196  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.dbase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheopentsdb.net
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Asthon TateFirebird FoundationAlachisoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release201619792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20052011
Current release2.1, December 2018dBASE 2019, 20195.0.1, August 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
dBase proprietary IDEC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.PSQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnonoyesyes infoNotificationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonenoneyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
More information provided by the system vendor
AgensGraphdBASEFirebirdNCacheOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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