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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. QuestDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoOracleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1984201420112014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201923.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infooff heap cacheyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles
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InterbaseLokiJSOracle NoSQLQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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