DBMS > EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Pinecone vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Interbase vs. OpenSearch vs. Pinecone vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.pinecone.io

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Exasol

Embarcadero

Amazon Web Services

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2000

1984

2021

2019

1999

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Python

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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