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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. Graphite vs. NuoDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orggalaxybase.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Chris DavisDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720062013
Current release5.0.0, January 2024Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C and JavaPythonC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined procedures and functionsnoJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infolockingyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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