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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. QuestDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.comquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoKineticaMicrosoftQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release1984201220122014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCC, C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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