DBMS > Databend vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL

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Name

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

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.datomic.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

docs.datomic.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Databend Labs

Cognitect

Firebird Foundation

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2021

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

1995

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

PSQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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