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DBMS > Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSearch engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationMicrosoftSTS Soft SCTranswarpVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520112010
Current release5.0.0, January 2024V14.0.8, September 201511.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C#Java, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoJava
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authenticationnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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