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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisHazelcastBaidu
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200620082018
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 20230.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyesnoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesvia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissions

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