DBMS > Interbase vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Embarcadero

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1984

1994

1984

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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