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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. SWC-DB vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.kinetica.com

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

github.com/torodb/server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.kinetica.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Kinetica

Alex Kashirin

8Kdata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2012

2020

2016

1987

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.1, August 2021

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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