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DBMS > Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Sqrrl vs. Tigris

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLiteAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqrrl.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoAlessandro FurieriAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Tigris Data, Inc.
Initial release19842005200820122022
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoexport as XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Access rights for users and roles

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