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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Firebird vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Firebird Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

Current release

2.1, December 2018

5.0.0, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

depending on used data model

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

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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