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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Interbase vs. Memgraph vs. RDFox

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasememgraph.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFirebird FoundationEmbarcaderoMemgraph LtdOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase198420172017
Current release5.0.0, January 2024InterBase 2020, December 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication using RAFTreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsRoles, resources, and access types
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FirebirdInterbaseMemgraphRDFox
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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