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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Object-relational database and reports server

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

www.valentina-db.net

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Paradigma Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2021

2009

1999

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

5.7.5

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

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 search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

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