DBMS > H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Widely used open source RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

CNRS

Embarcadero

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

Initial release

2013

1984

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1995

1985

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

11.5.2, August 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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