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DBMS > GBase vs. Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.EmbarcaderoObjectBox Limited
Initial release2004198420172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonCC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno infoexport as XML data possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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