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DBMS > Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperEmbarcaderoSimer PlahaAlex Kashirin
Initial release19842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20182020
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 20180.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCScalaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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 possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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