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DBMS > Firebird vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjanusgraph.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.janusgraph.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014201719842013
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.6.3, February 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes, on a single nodeDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access control

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