DBMS > Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Rockset

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2018

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

0.8, December 2018

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

dynamic typing

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.

can be achieved using .NET

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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