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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Firebird vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSTS Soft SCTranswarpVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20112010
Current release0.10, February 20245.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C#Java, C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnoJava
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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