DBMS > Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB

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Description

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Initial release

1984

2014

2012

2016

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

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

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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