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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Interbase vs. JSqlDb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Tarantool

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Embarcadero

Konrad von Backstrom

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2016

1984

2018

1984

2008

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.8, December 2018

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

yes

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

functions in JavaScript

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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