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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Embarcadero

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1984

2014

2013

2020

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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