DBMS > IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

IBM

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2014

1984

2012

1995

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, using Riak Security

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