DBMS > Firebird vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. TempoIQ vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

rdf4j.org

siridb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Cesbit

TempoIQ

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2004

2017

2012

2018

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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

simple rights management via user accounts

simple authentication-based access control

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