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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

dgraph.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

dgraph.io/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Embarcadero

Google

Initial release

2012

2016

1984

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Using read-only observers

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

Interbase Change Views

none

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

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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