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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. OpenSearch vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. OpenSearch vs. SQream DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucenea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
sqream.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationAmazon Web ServicesSQream Technologies
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20212017
Current release5.0.1, August 20242.5.0, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.no
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBFirebirdOpenSearchSQream DB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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