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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. TDengine

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBMTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220172019
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 20222.03.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
Triggersyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdHiveIBM Db2 Event StoreTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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