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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Rockset vs. Spark SQL

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Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

rockset.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.rockset.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Microsoft

Rockset

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1984

2012

1989

2019

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Automatic sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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