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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JaguarDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.jaguardb.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAltibaseInterSystemsDataJaguar, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release19992019201820152012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232023.3, June 20233.3 July 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyesrights management via user accountsno
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