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DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

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NameFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionReal-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 infooriginally from BorlandCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.22
Rank#300  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score3.38
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score168.09
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.featurebase.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.featurebase.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsEmbarcaderoSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201719842014
Current release2022, May 2022InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL queriesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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