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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LevelDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Tkrzw vs. Typesense

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.progress.com/­openedgedbmx.net/­tkrzwtypesense.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesttypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleProgress Software CorporationMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2011198420202015
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.23, February 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoclose to SQL 92nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C++
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoyesnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers and groupsno

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