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DBMS > Firebird vs. Hive vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hive vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghive.apache.orgtempoiq.com (offline)terminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometerminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookTempoIQDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220122018
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple authentication-based access controlRole-based access control

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