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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Well established RDBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Actian Corporation

Embarcadero

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2002

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2006

Current release

4.0

11.2, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

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++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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