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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

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

postgis.net/documentation

realm.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2020

2011

2005

2014

2012

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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