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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion vs. Warp 10

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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 InterBaseLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series 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
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
trafodion.apache.orgwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperCognitectFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPSenX
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720142015
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, January 20244.0 (May 2024)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++C and C++C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQLnoJava Stored Proceduresyes infoWarpScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, via HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
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)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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