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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SiriDB

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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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

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

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

Initial release

1984

2017

2011

2015

2017

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

24.1, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

optional

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

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