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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Riak KV vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Firebird Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Rockset

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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