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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.jaguardb.comrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.RocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013201520192011
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.6, April 20243.3 July 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++GoC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxhostedWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.yes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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FirebirdInfluxDBJaguarDBRocksetSTSdb
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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