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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

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

Website

bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Firebird Foundation

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2019

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.0.0, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual 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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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