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System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. FatDB vs. Firebird

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2017

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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