DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

drill.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Embarcadero

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

1999

2012

1984

2014

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.20.3, January 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Interbase Change Views

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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