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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. TerminusDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

terminusdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Circonus LLC.

DataChemist Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2018

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.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

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes, in Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Journaling Streams

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

yes

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