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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Spotify

Google

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

1993

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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