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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Firebird vs. Valentina Server

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonClickHouse  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score16.31
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score22.45
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#331  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltclickhouse.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationclickhouse.com/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperClickhouse Inc.Firebird FoundationParadigma Software
Initial release201320162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1999
Current releasev23.12.1.1368-stable, December 20235.0.0, January 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC# info3rd party library
C++
Elixir info3rd party library
Go info3rd party library
Java info3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party library
Kotlin info3rd party library
Nim info3rd party library
Perl info3rd party library
PHP info3rd party library
Python info3rd party library
R info3rd party library
Ruby info3rd party library
Rust
Scala info3rd party library
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPSQLyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonekey based and customnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneAsynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.Users with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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