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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Embarcadero

MonetDB BV

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2004

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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