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DBMS > Interbase vs. Newts vs. OceanBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Newts vs. OceanBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newtsen.oceanbase.comwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikien.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperEmbarcaderoOpenNMS GroupOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Groupquasardb
Initial release1984201420102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20194.3.0, April 202410 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 possiblenoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
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C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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