DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Prometheus

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.memcached.orgprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release1984201420032015
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 20171.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageCJavaScriptCGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data only
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 possiblenono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
InterbaseLovefieldMemcachedPrometheus
DB-Engines blog posts

Redis extends the lead in the DB-Engines key-value store ranking
3 February 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

New DB-Engines Ranking shows the popularity of database management systems
3 October 2012, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Borland InterBase backdoor detected | ZDNET
11 January 2001, ZDNet

An independent soccer league transforming lives in a slum in Kenya
15 November 2022, FanSided

Johnson Sakaja Donates KSh 200k to Support Cash Strapped Football Teams From Kibera - Tuko.co.ke
21 February 2024, Tuko.co.ke

Malaysian e-commerce firm Lelong.my acquires local digital marketing agency Mataris Agency
29 January 2018, Yahoo Singapore News

The advance of Air Force Esports
25 June 2023, New Zealand Defence Force

provided by Google News

Kagiso interactive shares: all eyes on android at google I/O
11 May 2015, WhaTech

provided by Google News

Why DDoS Threat Actors Are Shifting Their Tactics
15 March 2024, Infosecurity Magazine

Ubuntu 24.04 Helping Achieve Greater Performance On Intel Xeon Scalable Emerald Rapids
8 March 2024, Phoronix

Why Redis beats Memcached for caching
14 September 2017, InfoWorld

What are memcached servers, and why are they being used to launch record-setting DDoS attacks?
6 March 2018, GeekWire

Memcached DDoS: The biggest, baddest denial of service attacker yet
1 March 2018, ZDNet

provided by Google News

VTEX scales to 150 million metrics using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus | Amazon Web Services
10 March 2024, AWS Blog

Exadata Real-Time Insight - Quick Start
3 April 2024, Oracle

OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus: You can’t fix what you can’t see
29 March 2024, ibm.com

VictoriaMetrics Offers Prometheus Replacement for Time Series Monitoring
17 July 2023, The New Stack

Linux System Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and collectd
1 February 2024, Linux Journal

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here