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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Arcade Data

DolphinDB, Inc

Firebird Foundation

Transwarp

Initial release

2021

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

Current release

September 2021

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
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

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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