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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. KairosDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.gbase.cn

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Firebird Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2013

2012

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual 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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

simple password-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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