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Name

Description

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

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Firebird Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

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

Access control via Jena Security

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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