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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. VelocityDB

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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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Embarcadero

Transwarp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

10 R1, October 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

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

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

OpenCypher

.Net

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

MVCC

ACID

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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