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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Ignite vs. InfluxDB vs. Linter vs. Qdrant

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsRDBMS for high security requirementsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgignite.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewlinter.rugithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundationrelex.ruQdrant
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015201319902021
Current release5.0.0, January 2024Apache Ignite 2.62.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, Java, .NetGoC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replicationCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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