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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Firebird vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

cratedb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Crate

Firebird Foundation

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2023

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

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

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access Control Lists

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