DBMS > Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. jBASE vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SAP

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

1991

2010

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

5.7

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

optional

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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