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Firebird vs RocksDB: What are the differences?
Developers describe Firebird as "Relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platform". Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981. On the other hand, RocksDB is detailed as "Embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage, developed and maintained by Facebook Database Engineering Team". RocksDB is an embeddable persistent key-value store for fast storage. RocksDB can also be the foundation for a client-server database but our current focus is on embedded workloads. RocksDB builds on LevelDB to be scalable to run on servers with many CPU cores, to efficiently use fast storage, to support IO-bound, in-memory and write-once workloads, and to be flexible to allow for innovation.
Firebird and RocksDB can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
Firebird and RocksDB are both open source tools. RocksDB with 14.3K GitHub stars and 3.12K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Firebird with 347 GitHub stars and 95 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, RocksDB has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Firebird, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Pros of Firebird
- Free3
- Open-Source3
- Upgrade from MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL1
- Easy Setup1
- Great Performance1
Pros of RocksDB
- Very fast5
- Made by Facebook3
- Consistent performance2
- Ability to add logic to the database layer where needed1
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Cons of Firebird
- Speed2
Cons of RocksDB
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