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DBMS > Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SQream DB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big Dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationIBMSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017199220032017
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.017, July 20152022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
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
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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