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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Firebird vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

iotdb.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Firebird Foundation

Initial release

2017

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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