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DBMS > Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. Tkrzw

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefielddbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperEmbarcaderoSymasGoogleMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release1984201120142020
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20190.9.32, January 20242.1.12, February 20170.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.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
JavaScriptC++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDByes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono

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