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DBMS > Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb vs. jBASE

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAltibaseCambridge SemanticsIBMCirconus LLC.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release199920181983 infohost version20171991
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20232.3, January 202112.1, October 2016V0.10.20, January 20185.7
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptional
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infonot needed in graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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