DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. RDF4J vs. TempoIQ

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.firebirdsql.org

geospock.com

rdf4j.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Firebird Foundation

GeoSpock

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple authentication-based access control

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