DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebirdsql.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2013

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

using Azure authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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