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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Manticore Search vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	19.46
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

manticoresearch.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

manual.manticoresearch.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Manticore Software

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2001

Current release

5.0.1, August 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

XML support

Some 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 XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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