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DBMS > Interbase vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RRDtool vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RRDtool vs. TempoIQ

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperEmbarcaderoDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Tobias OetikerTempoIQ
Initial release19842013200519992012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 possiblenoyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJava, SQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infoMVCCyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tablenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLnosimple authentication-based access control

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