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DBMS > Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak KV

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release1984200419842009
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCErlang
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes, in SQL, C, RErlang
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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