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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. PostgreSQL vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tibero

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgresql.orgprometheus.iowww.sequoiadb.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgresql.org/­docsprometheus.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indextechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperEmbarcaderoPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSequoiadb Ltd.TmaxSoft
Initial release19841989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL201520132003
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 201916.3, May 20246, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCGoC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 possibleyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no infoImport of XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJavaScriptPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonepartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
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.yesnononono infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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