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DBMS > Firebird vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Lovefield vs. Prometheus vs. Valentina Server

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldprometheus.iowww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdprometheus.io/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGoogleParadigma Software
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420151999
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.1.12, February 20175.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptGo
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) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyes
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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