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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch 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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

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

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

origodb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Robert Friberg et al

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2015

2021

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

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

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

yes

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

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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 authorization

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