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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Firebird vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. openGauss

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualskairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320032019
Current release3.4, August 20195.0.0, January 20241.2.2, November 20181.6.27, May 20243.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaCC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoyes
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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