DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. YottaDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Multivalue DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseyottadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9yottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseIBMRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)YottaDB, LLC
Initial release20141999201719912001
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.05.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaScriptC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsyesyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesActive-active shard replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
AlaSQLAltibaseIBM Db2 Event StorejBASEYottaDB
Recent citations in the news

Create a Marvel Database with SQL and Javascript, the easy way
2 July 2019, Towards Data Science

HarperDB - How and Why We Built It From The Ground Up on NodeJS
28 February 2021, hackernoon.com

Multi faceted data exploration in the browser using Leaflet and amCharts
3 May 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Altibase is Adopted for Presence Service to Provide User Information and Online Presence
8 April 2019, PR Newswire

Open-source DBMS becoming battleground of public cloud
17 May 2022, Etnews

In-memory OLAP Database Market Is Booming (CAGR of 24.95%) Worldwide | Terracotta, Altibase, Kognitio, Mcobject ...
26 October 2018, openPR

South Korean company to provide database solution to Mobicom
10 April 2020, UB Post

In-Memory Database Market Size, Share, Trends and Forecast Analysis by Kognitio Ltd., Datastax, VoltDB, ENEA ...
27 July 2018, openPR

provided by Google News

Advancements in streaming data storage, real-time analysis and machine learning
25 July 2019, IBM

IBM Builds New Ultra-Fast Platform for Hoovering Up and Analyzing Data from Anywhere
31 May 2018, Data Center Knowledge

How IBM Is Turning Db2 into an 'AI Database'
3 June 2019, Datanami

Best cloud databases of 2022
4 October 2022, ITPro

Why a robust data management strategy is essential today | IBM HDM
19 September 2019, Express Computer

provided by Google News

Temenos signs first customer in India
24 August 2009, Finextra

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here