DBMS > Interbase vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
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Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.sadasengine.com

www.snowflake.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1984

2009

2006

2014

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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