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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. JSqlDb vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webjsqldb.org (offline)quasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleChris DavisKonrad von Backstromquasardb
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015200620182009
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.8, December 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlynoyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnononoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnonenoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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