DBMS > Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. RocksDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.39
Rank	#68	Overall
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Score	4.29
Rank	#87	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#262	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	23.72
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#328	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1984

2013

2014

1987

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.3.1, June 2022

3.3.0, June 2022

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

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

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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