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DBMS > Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationIBMOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720152006
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.03.0.0, September 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
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 writersNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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