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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Galaxybase vs. H2 vs. HugeGraph vs. NuoDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggalaxybase.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Thomas MuellerBaiduDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017200520182013
Current release5.0.0, January 2024Nov 20, November 20212.2.220, July 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and JavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
JavaGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined procedures and functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsJava, SQL
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC
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.yesyesyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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