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DBMS > Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgjsqldb.org (offline)rdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationKonrad von BackstromSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20182004
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLfunctions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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