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DBMS > Firebird vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Search engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4terminusdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSTS Soft SCDataChemist Ltd.TranswarpVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201120182010
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.0.0, January 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#Prolog, RustJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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