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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Teradata Aster

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 ElasticSearchHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Teradata
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420052005
Current release5.0.0, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
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++JavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoR packages
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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