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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GreptimeDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vertica

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#343  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggreptime.comwww.scylladb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greptime.comdocs.scylladb.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGreptime Inc.ScyllaDBOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase202220152005
Current release5.0.1, August 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC and C++RustC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLPythonyes, Luayes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptSimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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FirebirdGreptimeDBScyllaDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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