DBMS > Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	130.36
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	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1984

2014

2001

2019

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.5.1, February 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

yes

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