DBMS > Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
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Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Firebird Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Kinetica

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2009

2012

2021

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.10, January 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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