DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Faircom DB vs. Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.firebirdsql.org

manticoresearch.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

FairCom Corporation

Firebird Foundation

Manticore Software

Percona

Initial release

2015

1979

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2015

Current release

V12, November 2020

5.0.0, January 2024

6.0, February 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

PSQL

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

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
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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