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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#255	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.30
Rank	#68	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	141.82
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

1984

1992

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

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

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction 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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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Specific characteristics

Apache IoTDB (Internet of Things Database) is a time series data management system...
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Competitive advantages

Low Cost and High Performance Tens of million points write throughput High compression...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT / IIoT End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Real-Time and Historian Time Series Analytics
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Key customers

Over 200 customers worldwide, including Bosch, Siemens, Komat'su, Alibaba, etc.
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Market metrics

185+ contributors and 10,000+ times monthly clones on GitHub Rank 7 by commits among...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source: Apache License v2.0 Pricing for commercial-/cloud-/edge-edition provided...
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