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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebird vs. OpenEdge vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.firebirdsql.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Firebird Foundation

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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