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DBMS > Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.kinetica.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoKineticaOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release1984201220092010
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.1, August 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC, C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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 RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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