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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Coveo

Firebird Foundation

IBM

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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