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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Firebird vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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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

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Firebird Foundation

STS Soft SC

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

2010

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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