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DBMS > Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. LevelDB vs. Rockset vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. LevelDB vs. Rockset vs. Solr

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbrockset.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.rockset.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.GoogleRocksetApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015201120192006
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 20231.23, February 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnodynamic typingyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic 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 supportedyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnononoJava plugins
Triggersyesnononoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
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 conceptrights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyes

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