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DBMS > Firebird vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. QuestDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Warp 10

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperFirebird FoundationQuestDB Technology IncSAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.SenX
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014199220032015
Current release5.0.0, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL with time-series extensionsyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
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.yes infothrough memory mapped filesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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FirebirdQuestDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSplunkWarp 10
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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