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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. H2 vs. RDFox vs. Realm

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comiotdb.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerOxford Semantic TechnologiesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release19992018200520172014
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.0, April 20232.2.220, July 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaC
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasereplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesyes

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