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DBMS > Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemaxdb.sap.comwww.progress.com/­openedgeprometheus.ioquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Progress Software CorporationQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release19841984198420152014
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.9.10.12, February 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++GoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 possiblenoyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
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.yesnononoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsno
More information provided by the system vendor
InterbaseMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOpenEdgePrometheusQuestDB
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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