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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. TerarkDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.iobytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperEmbarcaderoKineticaGoogleObjectBox LimitedByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19842012201120172016
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 20211.23, February 20214.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesno
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoyesno
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