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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. Milvus vs. OushuDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.jaguardb.commilvus.iowww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mdwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.Oushu
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20152019
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 20232.3.4, January 20244.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsKerberos, SSL and role based access
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FirebirdJaguarDBMilvusOushuDB
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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