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DBMS > Interbase vs. Realm vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Realm vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserealm.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserealm.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Sphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release1984201420012011
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnono

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