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DBMS > EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Firebird vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. RRDtool

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kinetica.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationHypertable Inc.KineticaTobias Oetiker
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200920121999
Current release5.0.1, August 20240.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++C, C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnoyesNumeric data only
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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