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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. TempoIQ

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

Developer

FatCloud

Firebird Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

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

Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

PSQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

simple authentication-based access control

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