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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NuoDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.nuodb.comdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Transwarp
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLJava, SQL
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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