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DBMS > Firebird vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. RDF4J vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgrdf4j.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SADAS s.r.l.Teradata
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200420062005
Current release5.0.0, January 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF SchemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnoR packages
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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