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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Interbase vs. LMDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.lmdb.tech/doc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Rackspace

Embarcadero

Symas

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

1984

2011

1998

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.9.32, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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