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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. NebulaGraph

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualskairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperFirebird FoundationKineticaVesoft Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320122019
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.2.2, November 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesStrong typed schema
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access control
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FirebirdKairosDBKineticaNebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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