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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. Kdb vs. NuoDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance Time Series DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kx.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedcode.kx.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationBaiduCirconus LLC.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201820172000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032013
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9V0.10.20, January 20183.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++qC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes, in Luauser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.yesnoyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissionsnorights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users
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FirebirdHugeGraphIRONdbKdbNuoDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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