DBMS > Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. searchxml vs. Yanza

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Name

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Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

www.searchxml.net/category/products

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

informationpartners gmbh

Yanza

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

2014

2015

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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