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DBMS > Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. Sqrrl vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. Hazelcast vs. Sqrrl vs. YottaDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 gridAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhazelcast.comsqrrl.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisHazelcastAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.YottaDB, LLC
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2006200820122001
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoReplicated Mapselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoRole-based access controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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