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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Interbase vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.83
Rank	#76	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#137	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Embarcadero

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2015

1984

2004

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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