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

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
ignite.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisBaiduApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200620182015
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++PythonJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
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 conceptnoUsers, roles and permissionsSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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