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DBMS > Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerarkDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA 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 modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperEmbarcaderoObjectBox LimitedByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release198420172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2016
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-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 possiblenoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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