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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.firebirdsql.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

Mobiland AG

Firebird Foundation

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.1, August 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Thrift

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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