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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.firebirdsql.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Alachisoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2005

1984

2018

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

yes, on a single node

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

in-memory journaling

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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