DBMS > EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Exasol

Embarcadero

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2000

1984

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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