DBMS > Interbase vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.87
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Embarcadero

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

1984

2013

2005

2012

2023

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful 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#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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