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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. Interbase vs. Qdrant vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Infobright vs. Interbase vs. Qdrant vs. Tkrzw

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
dbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.EmbarcaderoQdrantMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20142005198420212020
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20190.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCCRustC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationInterbase Change ViewsCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationno

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