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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
RDF store
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.progress.com/­openedgeorigodb.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestorigodb.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftProgress Software CorporationRobert Friberg et alSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201219842009 infounder the name LiveDB2004
Current release5.0.0, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.noyesno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
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
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).NetJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACIDACID 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 persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers and groupsRole based authorizationno

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