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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.progress.com/openedge

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

Initial release

1984

2012

1984

2014

2010

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

yes

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