DBMS > Firebird vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Speedb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Speedb vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.speedb.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Firebird Foundation

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

Speedb

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2011

2010

2020

2009

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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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

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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