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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.sequoiadb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAltibaseEmbarcaderoGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release19991984201120132000
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023InterBase 2020, December 20191.23, February 20213.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change ViewsnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlno

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