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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. GigaSpaces

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Name

Description

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

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

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.esgyn.cn

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gigaspaces.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Gigaspaces Technologies

Initial release

2013

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2000

Current release

15585

5.0.0, January 2024

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C and C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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