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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandHigh performance Time Series DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasekx.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasecode.kx.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMicrosoftSiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release19842000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003199220102006
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.6, May 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20199.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCqC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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 possibleyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (q)yes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJava plugins
Triggersyesyes infowith viewsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Users with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
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InterbaseKdbMicrosoft AccessSiteWhereSolr
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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