DBMS > Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.06
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.firebirdsql.org

www.hawkular.org

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Firebird Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1999

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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

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