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DBMS > Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperEmbarcaderoMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release1984201620172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageTransact SQLnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyesonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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InterbaseMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseObjectBoxPostgres-XL
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