DBMS > Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.lmdb.tech/doc

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typesense.org/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Embarcadero

Symas

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2011

2017

2013

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

0.9.32, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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