DBMS > GBase vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2004

1984

2013

1992

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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