DBMS > Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Speedb vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

www.speedb.io

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Speedb

Initial release

1984

2014

2020

2015

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

yes

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

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

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