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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Rank	#72	Overall
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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

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

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

Initial release

1984

1980

1994

2007

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

23c, September 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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