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DBMS > Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBasePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.jaguardb.comrockset.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.rockset.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDataJaguar, Inc.RocksetSAP, formerly SybaseSTS Soft SC
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015201919942011
Current release5.0.0, January 20243.3 July 202316.1 SPS04, April 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client 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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyesSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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