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

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

realm.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Embarcadero

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2014

2011

1998

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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