DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebird vs. searchxml vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebird vs. searchxml vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.firebirdsql.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Firebird Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2000

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

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

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PSQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

via file-system locks

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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