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DBMS > Datomic vs. Interbase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Interbase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SwayDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperCognitectEmbarcaderoOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Simer Plaha
Initial release2012198419842018
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023InterBase 2020, December 20197.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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