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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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 ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420102015
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaErlangC++ 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
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoA 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
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 datayesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts

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