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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. Graphite vs. Transwarp KunDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#344  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Chris DavisTranswarp
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042006
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonPython
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesnoyes

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