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

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 Neo4jMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmemgraph.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­docmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.singlestore.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperEmbarcaderoBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SymasMemgraph LtdSingleStore Inc.
Initial release19841999201120172013
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20210.9.32, January 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation languageCC and JavaCC and C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
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
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
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
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsyesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
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
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers, roles and permissionsFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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InterbaseKingbaseLMDBMemgraphSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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