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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP HANA vs. TerarkDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverhelp.sap.com/­hanabytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperEmbarcaderoKineticaMicrosoftSAPByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19842012198920102016
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20222.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageCC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 possiblenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavaSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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