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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Ultipa

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  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 InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationUltipa
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142019
Current release5.0.1, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIRESTful 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
JavaScriptC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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