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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Firebird vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.firebirdsql.org

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Firebird Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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