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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HugeGraph vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Baidu

SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

2010

2020

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.9

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users, roles and permissions

yes

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