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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion vs. Warp 10 vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org

www.warp10.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Firebird Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

SenX

Yandex

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2014

2015

2023

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java Stored Procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes, via HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

Access Control Lists

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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