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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orgsqream.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSQream TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172018
Current release5.0.1, August 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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