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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Interbase vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Embarcadero

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2006

1984

1994

1987

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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