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DBMS > Bangdb vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Hyprcubd

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperServerless Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhyprcubd.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFirebird FoundationGoogleChris DavisHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20152006
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20215.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC, C++C and C++PythonGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesnoNumeric data onlyyes infotime, int, uint, float, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Source-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infolockingno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)notoken access

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