DBMS > Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
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Score	3.65
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Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.monetdb.org

rocksdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Facebook, Inc.

Rocket Software

Initial release

1984

1992

2004

2013

1985

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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