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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. MaxDB vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFirebird FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase198420152009
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.0.0, January 20247.9.10.12, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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