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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hive

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orghive.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200020142012
Current release5.0.0, January 202415.5, September 20203.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, C++, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 conceptRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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