DBMS > Immudb vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Search engine

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Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Codenotary

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP, Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

2020

1984

1995

1987

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source 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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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