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DBMS > Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Faircom DB vs. Interbase vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Faircom DB vs. Interbase vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdruid.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsFairCom CorporationEmbarcaderoSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19992012197919842013
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 2024V12, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaANSI C, C++CC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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