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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Firebolt vs. Infobright vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Firebolt vs. Infobright vs. Interbase

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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 FlinkHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.firebolt.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.firebolt.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebolt Analytics Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Embarcadero
Initial release2018202020051984
Current release1.1.0, April 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)hostedLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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