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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. TerminusDB vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

terminusdb.com

github.com/torodb/server

velocitydb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Firebird Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

8Kdata

VelocityDB Inc

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

2016

2011

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Any that supports .NET

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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