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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. SQL.JS vs. Vertica

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewsql.js.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperExasolFirebird FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20002000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320122005
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.6, April 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC and C++GoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsPSQLnonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesyesnonoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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EXASOLFirebirdInfluxDBSQL.JSVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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