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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceEmbarcadero
Initial release2013198420142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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