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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. SQL.JS vs. Stardog

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. SQL.JS vs. Stardog

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSPort of SQLite to JavaScriptEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#248  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsql.js.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperEsgynFirebird FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersStardog-Union
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420122010
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++JavaScriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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