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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

objectbox.io

www.openpie.com

www.singlestore.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.objectbox.io

docs.singlestore.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Embarcadero

ObjectBox Limited

OpenPie

SingleStore Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

2017

2013

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1, January 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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