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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. RisingWave

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualskairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperFirebird FoundationKineticaRisingWave Labs
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320122022
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.2.2, November 20187.1, August 20211.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC, C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers and Roles

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