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Name

Description

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

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

Primary database model

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

dgraph.io

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

dgraph.io/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Axibase Corporation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2000

2013

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

15585

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

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

User concepts

Access control

Access control via Jena Security

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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