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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Interbase vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEnterpriseDBEmbarcaderoquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20051984200920131987
Current release14, December 2021InterBase 2020, December 20193.14.1, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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