DBMS > DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. HarperDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. Firebird vs. HarperDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.harperdb.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Firebird Foundation

HarperDB

TempoIQ

Initial release

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2012

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.0, January 2024

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

yes, using LMDB

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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