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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2008

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2017

Current release

11.0, January 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

rights management via user accounts

Roles, resources, and access types

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