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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. QuestDB vs. Transbase

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquestdb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.comquestdb.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19842017201220141987
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyes
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 possibleCan index from XMLnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesoptimistic lockingACID for single-table writesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
InterbaseManticore SearchMicrosoft Azure Table StorageQuestDBTransbase
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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