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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebird vs. GBase

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cloudflare

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0.1, August 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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