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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

spark.apache.org/sql

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Embarcadero

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1984

2014

1987

2010

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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