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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Datomic vs. Interbase vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.datomic.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

docs.datomic.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Cognitect

Embarcadero

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

1984

1999

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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