DBMS > Interbase vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. JaguarDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.jaguardb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Embarcadero

DataJaguar, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

1984

2015

2014

2016

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

yes

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

rights management via user accounts

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

SQL standard access control

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