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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Interbase vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Embarcadero

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2012

1984

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write 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

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

yes

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