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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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Name

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

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.firebirdsql.org

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Softmotions

Firebird Foundation

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

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

yes

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.

no

Secondary indexes

no

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript 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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

PSQL

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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

yes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

no

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no

no

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