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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Linter vs. Trafodion vs. VoltDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

RDBMS for high security requirements

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

linter.ru

trafodion.apache.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Embarcadero

relex.ru

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1984

1990

2014

2010

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.3.0, February 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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