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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB

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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.)

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	104.92
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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

pouchdb.com

ravendb.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

pouchdb.com/guides

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

1992

2012

2010

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

5.4, July 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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