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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2013

2016

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

15585

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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