DBMS > Interbase vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. OushuDB vs. Snowflake 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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Oushu

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.0.1, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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