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

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Name

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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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Firebird Foundation

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

2018

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

5.0.1, August 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

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

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

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

in-memory journaling

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

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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