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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. KeyDB vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.keydb.dev

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Firebird Foundation

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2019

2012

2014

2018

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.1, August 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C, C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Lua

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple password-based access control and ACL

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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