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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Hypertable

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
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Score1.25
Rank#170  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncFirebird FoundationChris DavisHypertable Inc.
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20062009
Current release3.1.0, July 20205.0.0, January 20240.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++PythonC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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