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

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  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 InterBaseExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgobjectbox.ioen.oceanbase.compouchdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.ioen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasepouchdb.com/­guidestrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017201020122014
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.3.0, April 20247.1.1, June 20192.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++JavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP 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
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-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 methodsnononoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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