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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Ingres

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Ingres

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographarcadedb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.arcadedb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsArcade DataFirebird FoundationActian Corporation
Initial release2018202120162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release2.3, January 2021September 20215.0.0, January 202411.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like query language, no joinsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
JavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesPSQLyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes inforelationship in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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