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DBMS > CouchDB vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ReductStore vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ReductStore vs. TigerGraph

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonReductStore  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDesigned to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#384  Overall
#44  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­reductstore
www.reduct.store
www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.reduct.store/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFirebird FoundationMicrosoftReductStore LLC
Initial release20052000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201620232017
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.0.0, January 20241.9, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBusiness Source License 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++C++C++, RustC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptPSQLTransact SQLyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesRole-based access control

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