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DBMS > Firebird vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. FoundationDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­datastorehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsapple.github.io/­foundationdbcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationFoundationDBGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBaidu
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013200820082018
Current release5.0.0, January 20246.2.28, November 20202.3.4, January 20210.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyes, details hereoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like query language (GQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLin SQL-layer onlyusing Google App Engineyes infoCoprocessors in Javaasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
TriggersyesnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissions

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