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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Linter vs. Newts vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

linter.ru

opennms.github.io/newts

www.splunk.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Firebird Foundation

relex.ru

OpenNMS Group

Splunk Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1990

2014

2003

2020

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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