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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OceanBase vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 scalabilityA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisen.oceanbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperEmbarcaderoInterSystemsOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005VelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842018201019982011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192023.3, June 20234.3.0, April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)7.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modePL/SQLno
TriggersyesyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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InterbaseInterSystems IRISOceanBaseTimesTenVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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