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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. openGauss

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJShughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoInterSystemsHughes TechnologiesHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release19842018201419942019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192023.3, June 20234.4, October 20213.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptCC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 possibleyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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