DBMS > Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LevelDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Embarcadero

Google

SAP

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2011

2010

2012

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.23, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

with automatic compression on writes

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

yes

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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