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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. InfluxDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresplicemachine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSiteWhereSplice MachineByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2013201020142016
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.6, April 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++GoJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP RESTJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
C++ API
Java 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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes infoJavano
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on HBaseShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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 enginenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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FirebirdInfluxDBSiteWhereSplice MachineTerarkDB
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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