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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Linter vs. Realm vs. ScyllaDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandRDBMS for high security requirementsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#368  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.15
Rank#69  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaselinter.rurealm.iowww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserealm.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperEmbarcaderorelex.ruRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019ScyllaDB
Initial release1984199020142015
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, Lua
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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InterbaseLinterRealmScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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