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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kdb vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sqrrl

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandHigh performance Time Series DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekx.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmachbase.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasecode.kx.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperEmbarcaderoKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMachbaseAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release19842000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201420132012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.6, May 2018V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCqJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.noyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsnosimple password-based access controlCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
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InterbaseKdbLokiJSMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxSqrrl
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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