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

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

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiBased 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
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  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/­newtsgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.postgres-xl.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperEmbarcaderoOpenNMS GroupHuawei and openGauss communityquasardb
Initial release1984201420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2009
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.0, March 202210 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen 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, C++, JavaCC++
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 possiblenonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoANSI SQL 2011yes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
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
JavaC
C++
Java
.Net
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 languagenoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationSource-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.yesnononoyes 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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