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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

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

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2004

1984

2017

2006

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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.

yes

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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