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DBMS > DuckDB vs. Interbase vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Interbase vs. TerminusDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.61
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseterminusdb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperEmbarcaderoDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201819842018
Current release1.0.0, June 2024InterBase 2020, December 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++CProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change ViewsJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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