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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. OrientDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdborientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualskairosdb.github.iowww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Firebird FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200520132010
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.2.2, November 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesnoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaPSQLnonoJava, Javascript
TriggersnoyesnonoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiessimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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