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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.EmbarcaderoYottaDB, LLC
Initial release200219842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2001
Current release4.0InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesno
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID infoMVCCoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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