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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

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

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

1984

2014

2017

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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