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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used in-process key-value store

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1984

1994

2012

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

no

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.

no

export as XML data possible

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

.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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

no

no

Triggers

yes

yes

only for the SQL API

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

no

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