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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. openGemini vs. Oracle vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.oracle.com/database

rethinkdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.oracle.com/en/database

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

Huawei and openGemini community

Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1984

2022

1980

2009

2018

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.1, July 2023

23c, September 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

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 level can be parameterized

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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