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DBMS > Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgrealm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoInterSystemsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SC
Initial release198419972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.no infoexport as XML data possibleyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesuser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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