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DBMS > Dolt vs. Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Drizzle vs. Firebird vs. IRONdb vs. searchxml

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#191  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.firebirdsql.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDoltHub IncDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFirebird FoundationCirconus LLC.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release201820082000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20172015
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.0.0, January 2024V0.10.20, January 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releasenoPSQLyes, in Luayes infoon the application server
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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