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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Interbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Interbase  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp KunDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	In-memory caching system	Light-weight proven RDBMS originally from Borland	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle
Primary database model	Key-value store	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 4.08 Rank #75   Overall #41   Relational DBMS		Score 0.14 Rank #341   Overall #149   Relational DBMS
Website	cachelot.io	www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­kundb
Technical documentation		docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Developer		Embarcadero	Sybase, SAP	Transwarp
Initial release	2015	1984	1993
Current release		InterBase 2020, December 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	Android iOS Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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.	no	no export as XML data possible	no
Secondary indexes	no	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	.Net C C++ Delphi Java Object Pascal PHP Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes Interbase procedure and trigger language	yes	yes
Triggers	no	yes	yes	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Interbase Change Views	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Multiversion concurreny control	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes
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	Cachelot.io	Interbase	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Transwarp KunDB
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