DBMS > EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Relational 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	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Exasol

Embarcadero

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sybase, SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2000

1984

2004

1993

2000

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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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