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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebird vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebird vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRDF store
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.orgmemgraph.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmemgraph.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Firebird FoundationMemgraph LtdSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172004
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux 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
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaPSQLyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissionsno
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BigObjectFirebirdMemgraphRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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