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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Embarcadero

InterSystems

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2018

1984

2020

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2023.3, June 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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