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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Firebird vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

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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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Firebird Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

1999

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

5.0.1, August 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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