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DBMS > Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. RDFox vs. Tkrzw

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oxfordsemantic.techdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperEmbarcaderoGoogleOxford Semantic TechnologiesMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release1984201420172020
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20192.1.12, February 20176.0, Septermber 20220.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnonereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRoles, resources, and access typesno

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