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DBMS > chDB vs. Firebird vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Firebird vs. Rockset vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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NamechDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbwww.firebirdsql.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iowww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.rockset.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationRocksetSTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20232000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201920112014
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C#C++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.no infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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