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DBMS > Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Yaacomo

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/realm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4yaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoCirconus LLC.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release19842017201420112009
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V0.10.20, January 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in Luano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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