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DBMS > AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. Firebird vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. BigObject vs. Firebird vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographbigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.bigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsBigObject, Inc.Firebird FoundationSimer PlahaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release201820152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20181998
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesLuaPSQLnoPL/SQL
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusternoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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-ClusternoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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