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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB vs. Memgraph vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB vs. Memgraph vs. QuestDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmemgraph.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­docmemgraph.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperEmbarcaderoBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SymasMemgraph LtdQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19841999201120172014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20210.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and JavaCC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possibleyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnonoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsyesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissions
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