DBMS > Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Faircom DB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Faircom DB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FairCom Corporation

InterSystems

Initial release

1999

2012

1979

2018

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

V12, November 2020

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes

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