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DBMS > Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LMDB vs. Realm

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#118  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­docrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoSymasRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release198420112014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20190.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
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
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes

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