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DBMS > Firebird vs. gStore vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. gStore vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgen.gstore.cnhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationHughes TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201619942019
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.2, November 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++C++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesnoyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportednoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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