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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

druid.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Firebird Foundation

Baidu

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

1994

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

5.0.0, January 2024

0.9

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions

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