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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageDistributed 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 DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgpouchdb.comrockset.comswaydb.simer.auwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualspouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software FoundationRocksetSimer PlahaVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2012201920182010
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1.1, June 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++ScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typingnoyes
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLView functions in JavaScriptnonoJava
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operationsACID 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 writersyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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