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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenMLDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OpenMLDB vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchopenmldb.aiquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­maindoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoft4 Paradigm Inc.quasardbSiteWhere
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015202020092010
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V12024-2 February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, Java, ScalaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemaschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
SQLAlchemy
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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