DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

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

Developer

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

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

1984

2014

1989

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

View functions in JavaScript

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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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