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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.splunk.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2003

2012

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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