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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dragonfly vs. FileMaker vs. Firebird vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.claris.com/­filemakerwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleFirebird FoundationSpotify
Initial release2013202319832000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014
Current release1.0, March 202319.4.1, November 20215.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infovia pluginsyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
PHPC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayesPSQLno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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