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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1984

2013

2010

2011

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.4.0, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

yes

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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