DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Dragonfly vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#296  Overall
#134  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release202320172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172014
Current release1.0, March 20232022, May 20225.0.1, August 20244.0 (May 2024)2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++GoC and C++C and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemescheme-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL queriesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaPSQLnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DragonflyFeatureBaseFirebirdObjectBoxTrafodion
News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
DragonflyFeatureBaseFirebirdObjectBoxTrafodion
Recent citations in the news

DragonflyDB Announces $21m in New Funding and General Availability
21 March 2023, Business Wire

DragonflyDB reels in $21M for its speedy in-memory database
21 March 2023, SiliconANGLE News

Tech Startups to Watch in 2023
12 April 2023, Database Trends and Applications

Intel Linux Kernel Optimizations Show Huge Benefit For High Core Count Servers
29 March 2023, Phoronix

SFU Computing Science researchers receive 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award.
24 February 2023, Simon Fraser University News

provided by Google News

Get Your Infrastructure Ready for Real-Time Analytics
9 March 2022, Built In

Former Silicon Labs CEO Tyson Tuttle launches AI startup Circuit, acquires Austin startup Molecula
23 July 2024, The Business Journals

Pilosa: A Scalable High Performance Bitmap Database Index
17 June 2019, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

Firebird – Sr. Product Manager, Touring (Remote)
12 July 2024, Music Business Worldwide

12 Top Open Source Databases to Consider
1 May 2024, TechTarget

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
23 October 2023, The Hacker News

FIREBIRD'S HUBBARD TALKS DATA, AI, TIKTOK
14 December 2023, HITS Daily Double

Firebird – Director, Product Management (Remote)
12 July 2024, Music Business Worldwide

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here