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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comravendb.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceFirebird FoundationApache Software FoundationHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420122010
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1.1, June 20195.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
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.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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