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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. HugeGraph vs. NCache

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHazelcastBaiduAlachisoft
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200820182005
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 20230.95.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyesyes infoEventsnoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated Mapyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparkyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlUsers, roles and permissionsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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FirebirdHazelcastHugeGraphNCache
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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