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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.firebirdsql.orghbase.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTimescale
Initial release20182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20082017
Current release2.3, January 20215.0.0, January 20242.3.4, January 20212.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesPSQLyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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