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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hazelcast

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2008

1984

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.2, November 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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