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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgmanticoresearch.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFirebird FoundationManticore SoftwareHughes TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201719942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release5.0.0, January 20246.0, February 20234.4, October 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++CCScala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesno
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.Can index from XMLnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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