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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

terminusdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2018

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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 (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

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 journaling

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Role-based access control

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