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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Embarcadero

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2013

2004

2011

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

simple password-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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