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DBMS > Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.78
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.netwww.postgres-xl.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperEmbarcaderoSQream Technologies
Initial release198420052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 202410 R1, October 20182022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 possibleyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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