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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

objectbox.io

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.objectbox.io

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Embarcadero

ObjectBox Limited

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

1984

2017

2013

1987

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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