DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ScyllaDB vs. Vertica

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCassandra 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 DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeWide 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
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.scylladb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.scylladb.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ScyllaDBOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2018201020152005
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Scylla Cloud: Create real-time applications that run at global scale with Scylla Cloud, the industry’s most powerful NoSQL DBaaS
Implementation languageC and C++JavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-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 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-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
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary 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
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
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 proceduresPSQLasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, Luayes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable 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 methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyesnono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno 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 writersyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdHugeGraphIBM CloudantScyllaDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
» more
Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
» more
Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
» more
Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
» more
Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
» more
Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
» more
Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
» more
Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
» more
Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
» more
Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
FirebirdHugeGraphIBM CloudantScyllaDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Recent citations in the news

DoNot Team's New Firebird Backdoor Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
23 October 2023, The Hacker News

12 Top Open Source Databases to Consider
1 May 2024, TechTarget

FBI and AFP Arrest Alleged Developer, Marketer of Firebird/Hive RAT
15 April 2024, HackRead

Exploring the Firebird Database
9 August 2023, Open Source For You

Albany Firebirds single-game tickets on sale Friday
29 February 2024, Troy Record

provided by Google News

POC exploit code published for 9.8-rated Apache HugeGraph RCE flaw
7 June 2024, The Register

AI, Lockbit, Veeam, Club Penguin, Kali, Commando Cat, HugeGraph, Aaran Leyland… – SWN #391
7 June 2024, SC Media

PoC Exploit Released for High Severity Apache HugeGraph RCE flaw
7 June 2024, CybersecurityNews

Critical Apache HugeGraph Flaw Let Attackers Execute Remote Code
23 April 2024, GBHackers

Top 5 CVEs and Vulnerabilities of May 2024
3 June 2024, Security Boulevard

provided by Google News

Cloudant Best (and Worst) Practices — Part 1
18 March 2019, ibm.com

Intro to Enterprise Cloud Storage: How to Set Up a Cloudant Database
1 December 2014, Linux.com

IBM Expands Cloud Database Services with Kubernetes
26 September 2019, EnterpriseAI

IBM Code Engine and IBM Cloudant: Serverless Data and Infrastructure
16 August 2021, ibm.com

IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

provided by Google News

Sleeping at Scale - Delivering 10k Timers per Second per Node with Rust, Tokio, Kafka, and Scylla
26 April 2024, InfoQ.com

ScyllaDB Raises $43M to Take on MongoDB at Scale, Push Database Performance to New Levels
17 October 2023, Datanami

Running ScyllaDB NoSQL on Kubernetes with Spot Instances
10 July 2023, The New Stack

ScyllaDB on AWS is a NoSQL Database Built for Gigabyte-to-Petabyte Scale | Amazon Web Services
6 January 2023, AWS Blog

ScyllaDB Database Review | eWeek
21 August 2018, eWeek

provided by Google News

MapR Hadoop Upgrade Runs HP Vertica
22 September 2023, InformationWeek

Stonebraker Seeks to Invert the Computing Paradigm with DBOS
12 March 2024, Datanami

OpenText expands enterprise portfolio with AI and Micro Focus integrations
25 July 2023, VentureBeat

Postgres pioneer Michael Stonebraker promises to upend the database once more
26 December 2023, The Register

Querying a Vertica data source in Amazon Athena using the Athena Federated Query SDK | Amazon Web Services
11 February 2021, AWS Blog

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here