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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. XTDB

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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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

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	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Softmotions

Embarcadero

SAP

formerly Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1984

1992

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

17, July 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes, each node contains all data

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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