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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Databend Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Embarcadero

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2021

2010

1984

2008

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data 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

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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