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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LeanXcale vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Access vs. SurrealDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.leanxcale.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoLeanXcaleGoogleMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19842015201419922022
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 20171902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
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 methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, based on authentication and database rules

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