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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. EsgynDB vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	3.29
Rank	#95	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

druid.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Embarcadero

Initial release

1999

2012

2015

1984

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

29.0.1, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL for querying

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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