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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720131987
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V0.10.20, January 20189.2.1, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C and C++C++C 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
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoyesyes
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 conceptnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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