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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Firebird vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb vs. VoltDB

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebird FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatSTS Soft SCVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20172000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420112010
Current release2022, May 20225.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaC#Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesnonoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST.NET Client APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoJava
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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