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DBMS > EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. Trafodion

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NameEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storePort of SQLite to JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orgsql.js.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEsgynFirebird FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200920122014
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.2.0, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++ErlangJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLErlangnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, using Riak Securitynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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