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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Memgraph vs. Tkrzw

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWell established RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFirebird FoundationActian CorporationEmbarcaderoMemgraph LtdMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s198420172020
Current release5.0.0, January 202411.2, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 20190.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationIngres ReplicatorInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMVCCyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsno
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