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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1984

1995

2007

2003

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

14.1, August 2023

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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