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DBMS > Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperFirebird FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kinetica
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2010201320122014
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.6, April 20247.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangGoC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno
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