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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Realm vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

realm.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

realm.io/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2018

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

Role-based access control

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