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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. NebulaGraph vs. RDF4J vs. TDengine

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRDF storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
rdf4j.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.nebula-graph.iordf4j.org/­documentationdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCirconus LLC.Vesoft Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017201920042019
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V0.10.20, January 20183.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemayes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes, in Luauser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareCausal Clustering using Raft protocolnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access controlnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdIRONdbNebulaGraphRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTDengine
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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TDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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