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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orgobjectbox.ioquasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCognitectFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedquasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720092014
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, January 20243.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++C and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQLnonoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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