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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NCache vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheobjectbox.iopouchdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsdocs.objectbox.iopouchdb.com/­guidestrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationAlachisoftObjectBox LimitedApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005201720122014
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.3, April 20247.1.1, June 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC and C++JavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRnoView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyes infoNotificationsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)yesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdNCacheObjectBoxPouchDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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