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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

nsdb.io/Architecture

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

8Kdata

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2017

2012

2006

2016

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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