DBMS > Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J 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

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

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

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Trend Chart

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Embarcadero

ObjectBox Limited

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

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

1984

2017

2004

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

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++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

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

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

yes

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