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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Drill vs. Interbase vs. SiteWhere vs. SQream DB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdrill.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresqream.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationEmbarcaderoSiteWhereSQream Technologies
Initial release19992012198420102017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.20.3, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
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 datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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 sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDepending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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