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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn 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 ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420122015
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accounts

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