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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

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Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Firebird Foundation

CCRi and others

Initial release

2016

2009

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JCache

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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