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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

IBM

Embarcadero

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

1983

host version

1984

2000

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

12.1, October 2016

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

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

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 procedures and functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Interbase Change Views

none

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

Relationships in graphs

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

via file-system locks

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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