DBMS > Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Embarcadero

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

1984

2012

2014

2003

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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