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DBMS > Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SingleStore vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. SingleStore vs. SiteWhere vs. Solr

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.singlestore.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMicrosoftSingleStore Inc.SiteWhereApache Software Foundation
Initial release19841992201320102006
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20191902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20198.5, January 20249.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Officecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, GoJavaJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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 possiblenonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJava plugins
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infohash partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsnoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Fine grained access control via users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes
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InterbaseMicrosoft AccessSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSiteWhereSolr
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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