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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. KairosDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrethinkdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekairosdb.github.iorethinkdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19842013200920141987
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191.2.2, November 20182.4.1, August 20202.3.0, February 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoJava Stored Proceduresyes
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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