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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Graphite vs. NSDb vs. Rockset

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webnsdb.iorockset.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationChris DavisRockset
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200620172019
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++PythonJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringdynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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