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DBMS > Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperEmbarcaderoInterSystemsFacebook, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release198419972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20131993
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
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
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
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
C++ API
Java API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
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 integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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