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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebird vs. SWC-DB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#14  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperFirebird FoundationAlex Kashirin
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20202023
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.5, April 20211.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
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++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and String
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication
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 integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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