DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splunk vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.featurebase.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.splunk.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2017

1984

1989

2003

2016

Current release

2022, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL queries

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

Access rights for users and roles

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