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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Linter vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrigoDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDBMS for high security requirementsMicrosoft 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.)Widely used in-process key-value storeA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaselinter.ruwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderorelex.ruMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRobert Friberg et al
Initial release19841990199219942009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201918.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 possiblenoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Triggersyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
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 integrityyesyesyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003noRole based authorization

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