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DBMS > Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Transbase

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperChris DavisIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EmbarcaderoTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2006201019841987
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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