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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperFirebird FoundationOpenNMS GroupOracleinformationpartners gmbhSimer Plaha
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2014201120152018
Current release5.0.0, January 202423.3, December 20231.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)multiple readers, single writerAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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