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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Qdrant vs. Rockset vs. StarRocks vs. VoltDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisDistributed 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 DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rockset.comwww.starrocks.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.rockset.comdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationQdrantRocksetThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2021201920202010
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.5.3, March 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open 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++RustC++C++, JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleandynamic typingyesyes
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 infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnouser defined functionsJava
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationCollection-level replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptKey-based authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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