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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.19
Rank	#62	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2006

2016

2014

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Python

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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