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DBMS > Interbase vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. Riak KV vs. VelocityDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperEmbarcaderoHughes TechnologiesRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19841994199320092011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20194.4, October 20213.4-123.2.0, December 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCErlangC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoyesErlangno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes, using Riak SecurityBased on Windows Authentication

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