DBMS > Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Warp 10

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Name

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

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

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

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

Microsoft

SenX

Initial release

1984

2017

2014

2012

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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