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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TinkerGraph vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Oracle

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2007

2009

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

optionally

optional

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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