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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. TimesTen

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FatCloud

Embarcadero

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

1984

1998

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via applications

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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