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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PouchDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablespouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.EmbarcaderoMicrosoftApache Software FoundationTeradata
Initial release20201984201220122005
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoView functions in JavaScriptR packages
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerInterbase Change Viewsyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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