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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ingres vs. Interbase vs. SiriDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Well established RDBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

siridb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.siridb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Embarcadero

Cesbit

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2017

2008

Current release

11.2, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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