DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. gStore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. gStore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

quasardb

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2014

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.2, November 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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