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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LMDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSymasOraclePercona
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201120112015
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.9.32, January 202423.3, December 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoJavaScript
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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.yesyes infooff heap cacheyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles

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