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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

siridb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.heavy.ai

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Cesbit

TempoIQ

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2016

2017

2012

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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 and C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

simple authentication-based access control

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