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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. LokiJS vs. SpaceTime vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA widely adopted in-memory data gridIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghazelcast.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHazelcastMireoRocket Software
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2008201420201985
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesoptional
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoReplicated MapnoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access controlnoyesAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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