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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  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 ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRDBMS for high security requirements
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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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
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comlinter.ru
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.relex.ru
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420151990
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 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
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 conceptrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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