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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. LokiJS vs. Sqrrl

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Name	Interbase  Xexclude from comparison	LokiJS  Xexclude from comparison	Sqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
			Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
Description	Light-weight proven RDBMS originally from Borland	In-memory JavaScript DBMS	Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store	Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 6.30 Rank #68   Overall #37   Relational DBMS	Score 0.57 Rank #226   Overall #34   Document stores
Website	www.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase	github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS	sqrrl.com
Technical documentation	docs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase	techfort.github.io/­LokiJS
Developer	Embarcadero		Amazon originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release	1984	2014	2012
Current release	InterBase 2020, December 2019
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	JavaScript	Java
Server operating systems	Android iOS Linux OS X Windows	server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)	Linux
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	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.	no export as XML data possible	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes via views	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	no
APIs and other access methods	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	JavaScript API	Accumulo Shell Java API JDBC ODBC RESTful HTTP API Thrift
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ Delphi Java Object Pascal PHP Ruby	JavaScript	Actionscript C using GLib C# C++ Cocoa Delphi Erlang Go Haskell Java JavaScript OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby Smalltalk
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes Interbase procedure and trigger language	View functions in JavaScript	no
Triggers	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	none	Sharding making use of Hadoop
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Interbase Change Views	none	selectable replication factor making use of Hadoop
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	yes
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	none	Immediate Consistency Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no atomic operations within a single collection possible	Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes Multiversion concurreny control		yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
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