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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Transbase

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

Firebird Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

1987

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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