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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Tarantool vs. Trafodion

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.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 vectorsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#139  Overall
#25  Document stores
#24  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.tarantool.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iowww.tarantool.io/­en/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedVKApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20052000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720082014
Current release14, December 20215.0.1, August 20244.0 (May 2024)2.10.0, May 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C and C++C and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
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
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIOpen binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.PSQLnoLua, C and SQL stored proceduresJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenonenoneSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yes, 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 systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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