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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon Redshift vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LevelDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.39
Rank	#81	Overall
	#13	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Altibase

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

InterSystems

Google

Initial release

1999

2012

2018

2011

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

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 automatic compression on writes

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

yes

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