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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

informationpartners gmbh

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2005

2015

2014

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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

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