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DBMS > Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperRackspaceFirebird FoundationSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release201320132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142015
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++JavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptrights management via user accounts

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