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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Solr vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssolr.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareMicrosoftApache Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19842017199220062011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.1, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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 possibleCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava pluginsno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesBased on Windows Authentication

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