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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Interbase vs. jBASE vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Alibaba

Embarcadero

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1984

1991

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.7

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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