DBMS > Interbase vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP IQ vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SAP IQ vs. SurrealDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

LeanXcale

Sybase, SAP

SAP, formerly Sybase

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1984

2015

1993

1994

2022

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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