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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Altibase

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

1999

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

PSQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

rights management via user accounts

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