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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Memcached vs. XTDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 key-value store, originally intended for cachingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.memcached.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoInterSystemsDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1984201820032019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192023.3, June 20231.6.27, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCClojure
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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InterbaseInterSystems IRISMemcachedXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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