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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Mobiland AG

Firebird Foundation

Hazelcast

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2013

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Windows-Profile

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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