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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JanusGraph vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JanusGraph vs. Prometheus

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud-based data warehousing serviceA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousejanusgraph.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.janusgraph.orgprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebird FoundationIBMLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420172015
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLPL/SQL, SQL PLyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationyesyesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
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 persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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