DBMS > Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Realm vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. RDF4J vs. Realm vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org

realm.io

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rdf4j.org/documentation

realm.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1984

2004

2014

2011

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

none

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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