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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Embarcadero

SAP

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1984

2010

2011

2012

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Linux
OS X
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

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

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

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

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

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