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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Baidu

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

2014

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions

simple password-based access control

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