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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2016

1979

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

Current release

V3, October 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

rights management via user accounts

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