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DBMS > Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LMDB vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LMDB vs. NuoDB vs. Qdrant

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#145  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.heavy.aiwww.lmdb.tech/­docdoc.nuodb.comqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHEAVY.AI, Inc.SymasDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Qdrant
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2016201120132021
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.10, January 20220.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ and CUDACC++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoJava, SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersKey-based authentication

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