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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2013

2016

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

Current release

15585

5.0.1, August 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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