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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. EsgynDB vs. SQLite vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A lightweight IoT native database management system deployable on the device and syncing the collected data with the cloud and integrated with Hadoop and Spark

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.14
Rank	#159	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#289	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#273	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	125.06
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#116	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Website

www.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

altibase.com/resources/manuals

esgyn.com/developers

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TmaxSoft

Initial release

1999

2018

2015

2000

2003

Current release

v7.1.0.5.3, March 2021

3.35.4 (2 April 2021), April 2021

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

since February 2018

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

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

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency with synchronizing with the cloud

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

via file-system locks

yes

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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