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Name

Description

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

greptime.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.greptime.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

kairosdb.github.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Embarcadero

Oracle

Initial release

2022

1984

2013

1980

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.2.2, November 2018

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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