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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

trafodion.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2014

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes, via HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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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