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DBMS > Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Titan

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 hardwareA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.aigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201620122012
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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