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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenEdge vs. WakandaDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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 InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.progress.com/­openedgewakanda.github.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Progress Software CorporationWakanda SAS
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201019842012
Current release5.0.0, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++ErlangC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92no
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and groupsyes

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