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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.esgyn.cn

www.firebirdsql.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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