DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/neptune

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Altibase

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

InterSystems

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

1999

2017

2012

2018

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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