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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Linter

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

linter.ru

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Embarcadero

relex.ru

Initial release

2013

2010

1984

1990

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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