DBMS > AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebird vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebird vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.firebirdsql.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Franz Inc.

Amazon

FairCom Corporation

Firebird Foundation

Embarcadero

Initial release

2004

2012

1979

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

Current release

8.0, December 2023

V3, October 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PSQL

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

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

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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