DBMS > Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MaxDB vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2009

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

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