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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trafodion

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#320  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.postgres-xl.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Firebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release2.1, December 20185.0.1, August 20244.0 (May 2024)10 R1, October 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C and C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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