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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. Interbase vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Codenotary

Embarcadero

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2020

1984

1991

2005

1993

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

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

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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