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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. QuestDB vs. SAP IQ

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperEmbarcaderoDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release19842003201220141994
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191.6.27, May 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.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
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenononoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Source-replica replication with eventual consistencySAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
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 dataACIDnooptimistic lockingACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
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-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterbaseMemcachedMicrosoft Azure Table StorageQuestDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
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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