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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Firebird vs. Sequoiadb vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.firebirdsql.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Firebird Foundation

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2023

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

1999

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

PSQL

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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