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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAltibaseFirebird FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.Paradigma Software
Initial release19992000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420131999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.0.0, January 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsPSQLView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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