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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. RRDtool

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kinetica.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Firebird FoundationKineticaTobias Oetiker
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20121999
Current release2.1, December 20185.0.0, January 20247.1, August 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C, C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritancenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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