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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
RDF store

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

hazelcast.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hazelcast

ByteDance, originally Terark

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2016

2018

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Java

JavaScript
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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

none

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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