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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Hive vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. Rockset

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orghive.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDataJaguar, Inc.Rockset
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2012201520142019
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.1.3, April 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnodynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and rolesrights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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