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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexterminusdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoApache Software FoundationAlessandro FurieriDataChemist Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release19842014200820181987
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20235.0.0, August 202011.0.0, January 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCScalaC++Prolog, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenonoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsnonenoneJournaling StreamsSource-replica replication
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 integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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