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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperEmbarcadero
Initial release198420142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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