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DBMS > BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperBaseX GmbHFirebird FoundationMicrosoftRocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520192011
Current release11.0, June 20245.0.0, January 2024V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPSQLnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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