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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Informix vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Informix vs. SiteWhere vs. VelocityDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherevelocitydb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docsinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.SiteWhereVelocityDB Inc
Initial release19992012198420102011
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 202314.10.FC5, November 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++ and JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyesno
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourceUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptBased on Windows Authentication

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