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DBMS > Datomic vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebird vs. Infobright vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperCognitectFirebird FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.GoogleManticore Software
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200520142017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, January 20242.1.12, February 20176.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++CJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQLnonouser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnono

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