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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. SQL.JS vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Esgyn

Firebird Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2012

2010

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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-92 is not fully supported

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PSQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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