DBMS > Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

Developer

Embarcadero

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

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

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
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

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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