DBMS > Derby vs. Interbase vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Interbase vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1997

1984

1994

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

yes

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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 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

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

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