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DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score18.43
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#141  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#80  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#44  Relational DBMS
Score6.92
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score3.68
Rank#74  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlprometheus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFirebird Foundationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleTimescale
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2011201120152017
Current release5.0.1, August 202424.1, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsoptionalNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infooff heap cachenono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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