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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. PieCloudDB vs. Quasardb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.openpie.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisOpenPiequasardb
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20062009
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.1, January 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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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
Linux
Unix
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdGraphitePieCloudDBQuasardb
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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