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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SQream DB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseCloud-based data warehousing servicea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousesqream.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebird FoundationIBMSQream Technologies
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142017
Current release5.0.0, January 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
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
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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