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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.oushu.com/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleOushuOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320142009
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 20174.0.1, August 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
JavaScriptC
C++
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesErlang
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneyesSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accountsnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes, using Riak Security
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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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