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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. TerminusDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationHypertable Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20092018
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9.8.11, March 201611.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyes
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access control

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