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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OushuDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.oushu.com/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOushuSphinx Technologies Inc.Transwarp
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2001
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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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
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolOpenCypher
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptKerberos, SSL and role based accessnoyes

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