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

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  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 MobileJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgobjectbox.iopouchdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.objectbox.iopouchdb.com/­guidestrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperFirebird FoundationObjectBox LimitedApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017201220142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release5.0.0, January 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 SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++JavaScriptC++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
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
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Proceduresyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, via HBasedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesdepending on connected data-source
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 conceptyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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FirebirdObjectBoxPouchDBTrafodionTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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