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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MonetDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Embarcadero

MonetDB BV

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2004

1998

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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