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DBMS > Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. PouchDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFirebird FoundationPinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420192012
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanno
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptPythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnono

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