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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Tibero vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

TmaxSoft

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

1995

1999

2003

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

6, April 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C and Assembler

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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