DBMS > BaseX vs. GreptimeDB vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GreptimeDB vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

greptime.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.greptime.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Greptime Inc.

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2007

2022

1984

2014

Current release

11.0, June 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

yes

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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