DBMS > Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Actian Corporation

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2010

2013

Current release

11.2, May 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V12

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Interbase Change Views

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

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