DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Interbase vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Interbase vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.67
Rank	#75	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

McObject

Embarcadero

Teradata

Initial release

2001

1984

2005

Current release

8.2, 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

support of XML interfaces available

export as XML data possible

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

R packages

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Interbase Change Views

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

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