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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.In-memory caching systemFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcachelot.iowww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2016
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++C++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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