DBMS > Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Graph Engine vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2016

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2004

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

.NET

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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