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DBMS > Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TinkerGraph

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hypertable Inc.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2016200919842009
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.10, January 20220.9.8.11, March 20167.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ and CUDAC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
C++ API
Thrift
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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