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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. Milvus vs. OrigoDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable 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

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

rights management via user accounts

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Role based authorization

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Specific characteristics

Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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