DBMS > Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. QuestDB vs. Snowflake vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

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

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

questdb.io

www.snowflake.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

questdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

QuestDB Technology Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

1984

2016

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customers

Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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