DBMS > Firebird vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.rockset.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Rockset

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2019

2006

2014

2011

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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