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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BaseX vs. EJDB vs. Firebird vs. mSQL

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgbasex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebirdsql.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.basex.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaseX GmbHSoftmotionsFirebird FoundationHughes Technologies
Initial release2018200720122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1994
Current release1.1.0, April 202311.0, June 20245.0.0, January 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC and C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoPSQLno
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnonenoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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