DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Trend Chart

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Embarcadero

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2013

1984

1987

2014

2015

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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