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DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA 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 DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmopentsdb.netgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFirebird FoundationRocket Software, originally Martin Phillipscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase199320112016
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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