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DBMS > Interbase vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#272  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.ittia.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperEmbarcaderoITTIA L.L.C.Microsoft
Initial release1984200720102017
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20198.7V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoexport as XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesTransact SQLno
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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