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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Tkrzw

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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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	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Exasol

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2000

1984

1989

1994

2020

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

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

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

using specific database classes

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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