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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. gStore vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

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Score	16.82
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#371	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#370	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

en.gstore.cn

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2011

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

1.2, November 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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 capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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