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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.61
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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2002

1984

2021

2009

Current release

4.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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