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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GraphDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.76
Rank#99  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.09
Rank#343  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ontotext.comgreptime.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.greptime.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOntotextGreptime Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200020222014
Current release5.0.1, August 202410.4, October 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaRustC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLwell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityPythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoConstraint checkingyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FirebirdGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGreptimeDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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