DBMS > Galaxybase vs. Interbase vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Interbase vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Embarcadero

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

1984

2000

2022

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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